Uncanny Quotes - Page 4

• Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

  Djuna Barnes

  Block, Thinking, Hair

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.192, Courier Dover Publications

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• Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today.

  Subhash Kak

  Years, Age, Would Be

  "The Secret Teachings of the Vedas: The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life". Book by Stephen Knapp, 1990.

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• 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

  Smart, Self Esteem, Years

  "Wesley Clark: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Light, Heathers, Promise

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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 not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!

  Steve Irwin

  Kryptonite, Desire, Wildlife

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• O. J. has an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to makethe cut. He can kill you with a headfake, he can kill you with the swiftness of his legsand the ability to be in a direction at any single second. He also kills you with hisvariation of speed... (on some of the ways O. J. Simpson can kill)

  Howard Cosell

  Moving, Cutting, Swiftness

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• Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Chickens

  Daniel Pinkwater (2011). “Lizard Music”, p.46, New York Review of Books

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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 satisfying ways.

  Lou Lumenick

  Air, Directors, Knack

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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 over food.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  People, Witch, Warlocks

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• I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.

  Karen Chance

  Rupture, Boxes, Bigs

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• People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

  Anne Tyler

  Mother, Children, People

  "Ladder Of Years". Book by Anne Tyler, 1995.

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• The others had taken Valek's return in stride, although Janco made a comment about Valek's lack of hair. "You ever notice how couples start to look alike?" he asked. In a deadpan, Valek replied, "Yes. In fact I was just thinking how much you and Topaz resemble each other. It's uncanny.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Couple, Taken, Thinking

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.263, Harlequin

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• The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really the smaller consequence from killing the child Apocalypse. This is the big consequence.

  Rick Remender

  Children, Fall, Issues

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• 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

  Book, Bigger, Force

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• What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Wind, Forever, Soul

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.

  Tim Dorsey

  Florida, People, Drug

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• Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

  Jerry Saltz

  Wall, Cutting, Creating

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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, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Astrology, Superstitions

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• He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore

  Les Dennis

  Dangerous, Ability

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