Quotes About Irregularity

The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or aware of my symptoms. I had no idea that this could make me five times more likely to have a stroke than somebody who doesn't have this.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

To me, the appeal of prime numbers had something to do with the fact that you could never predict when one would appear. They seemed to be scattered along the number line at any place that took their fancy.

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

All of the little entries in 'The Cows' were written in an irregular way. There might be one or two done one day, and then two weeks might go by or four weeks, and then they were put in an order or sequence.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

There is no normality in life.

There was a discouraging lack of formality, or any sort of organization, to this place.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

out·li·er -,l()r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body

Outlier (noun): 1. Something that is situated away from, or classed differently from, a main or related body. 2. A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.

Whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself, also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead into the chaos and labyrinth of existence.

In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.

It did occur to him that he could perhaps get some help by praying for it; but as the prayers he said every evening were forms learned by heart, he rather shrank from the novelty and irregularity of introducing an extempore passage on a topic of petition for which he was not aware of any precedent.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

The time is out of joint.

Dans l'ordre du normatif, le commencement c'est l'infraction. [...] La condition de possibilité des règles ne fait qu'un avec la condition de possibilité de l'expérience des règles. L'expérience des règles c'est la mise à l'épreuve, dans une situation d'irrégularité, de la fonction régulatrice des règles.

Mr Comyn gathered up his hand and began to sort the cards. I must thank you, I suppose, but anything in the nature of irregularity, or clandestine conduct, is distasteful to me - especially in this delicate affair. Then you shouldn't ally yourself with my family, replied his lordship.