Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect,… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
“Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.'… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that… — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“What are the Hanged Man’s powers?” I tried to remember more about that player. “I don’t know,” Aric admitted. “I’ve never faced… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
