Uncanny Quotes

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I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it.

Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.

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!

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

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 this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

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.

Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.

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

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

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 you.

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.

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.

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.

The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

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.

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.

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

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.

There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of "The Unheimlich".

I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips.

Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

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.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men, my love story would be comprising of short stories.

all may not be well but, sometimes, things that seem so uncanny are what shield and protect us from the worst situations in life.