Alive Quote by Alan Alda

“There is a specific dimension of the uncanny that emerges with modernity… in premodern societies the dimension of the uncanny was largely covered (and…

— Mladen Dolar

“uncanny as something long familiar that feels strangely unfamiliar. The uncanny stands between standard categories and challenges the categories themselves. It is familiar to…

— Sherry Turkle

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It…

— Nolan North

“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a…

— Ernst Jentsch

I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of…

— Steven Bauer

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I…

— Patricia Piccinini

“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an…

— Gene Wolfe

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it…

— Christa Wolf

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

— Glen Cook

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I…

— Kayvan Novak

For me, I really feel like a character when I look like them.

— Blake Lively