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
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. — John Banville Copy Share Image
When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness… — Timothy Gallwey 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
He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place.… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
“The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space.” — Patrick McGrath Copy Share Image
Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
The others had taken Valek's return in stride, although Janco made a comment about Valek's lack of hair. "You ever notice how… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“uncanny as something long familiar that feels strangely unfamiliar. The uncanny stands between standard categories and challenges the categories themselves. It is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty… — Ernst Jentsch Copy Share Image
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full… — Dave Eggers 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
“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
“People don't like the uncanny, and rather than look fully at something disturbing, they'll avoid it altogether.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Like 'Uncanny X-Men,' 'New Excalibur' is the story of people thrown together by fate and wild circumstance who find their way to… — Chris Claremont 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
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
