Uncanny Quotes
63 quotes by 59 authors
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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
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In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining…
— Joan Raphael-Leff
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In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than…
— Stanley Kubrick
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The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of…
— Doreen Valiente
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The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us;…
— Phil Cousineau
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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 is…
— Christa Wolf
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I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from…
— Michael Vick
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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
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... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
— Itzhak Perlman
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All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded…
— Khalil
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All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded…
— Khalil
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I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm…
— Steve Irwin
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Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.
— Wes Fesler
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I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is,…
— Albert Einstein
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Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable…
— Rob Brezsny
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Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
— John Banville
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At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically…
— Lou Lumenick
Who Wrote These Uncanny Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 63 Uncanny Quotes, led by these top contributors: