When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book. — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
“We know this world intimately and that is its uncanniness. We cannot bear our knowledge.” — David Mura Copy Share Image
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it. — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that… — Ariel Pink 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
So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Dejavu' is a subconcious reminder of the contract your soul signed long before you chose the body you would reside in on… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts 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
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
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“Gerbert, by the window, shuddered; his mouth contorted. The witch began to twist faster and faster while her twin was talking to… — Marcus Speh 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
“From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence which is entirely strange… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. — John Banville Copy Share Image
At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with… — Catherynne M. Valente 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
In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
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