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
“For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally… — Charles Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space.” — Patrick McGrath 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
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
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
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
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever… — William Westney Copy Share Image
I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to… — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson 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
Sleeping people are so remote… Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy.… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
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
“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
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you… — John O'Donohue 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
“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
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
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
Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the… — Lou Lumenick 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
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
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
“People don't like the uncanny, and rather than look fully at something disturbing, they'll avoid it altogether.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I… — Philip Pullman 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
But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives.… — Dean Koontz 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
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
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