Quotes About Anomaly

A statistical anomaly does not prove wrongdoing. Delma Kinney, a fifty-year-old Atlanta man, won $1 million in an instant lottery in 2008 and then another $1 million in an instant game in 2011. The probability of that happening to the same person is somewhere in the range of 1 in 25 trillion.

Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy.

Amish?" Darly said. "Is that a genetic anomaly or infectious disease?

L'anomalie n'est connue de la science que si elle a d'abord été sentie dans la conscience, sous forme d'obstacle à l'exercice des fonctions, sous forme de gêne ou de nocivité. Mais le sentiment d'obstacle, de gêne ou de nocivité est un sentiment qu'il faut bien dire normatif, puisqu'il comporte la référence même inconsciente d'une fonction et d'une impulsion à la plénitude de leur exercice.

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

I've got a tiny little twist in the tooth to the right of my two front teeth that my dad, my aunt and my grandad have all had. It's really weird; it's the Bowman twist. I don't know what it is about my mouth, but it looks a bit wonky to me.

I had—simply by surviving—become a freak of nature.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana Azmi-Smita Patil art cinema mould.

Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?'

In 'Amalur,' each person believes he has an immutable destiny, one that defines how, and how long, he will live. Until you come along. But of course, your character is the anomaly, somebody who can change both his own fate and the destinies of the people he interacts with. So, naturally, it's up to you to save the world.

He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts.

And there were hundreds of singular events experienced by individuals: creatures moving in the shadows, voices and screams from the sewer grates, milk souring, cats scratching owners, dogs howling, and a thousand people woke up to find that they no longer cared for the taste of chocolate. It was a fucked-up day.

his eyes were different colors. One was blue and one was black.

When emotional intelligence was first discovered, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20 percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70 percent of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the source of success—IQ. Scientists

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule.

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

Messi is just an anomaly: he can dribble, he can score, he can pass, he has the vision, he understands the game.

Hijo de tigre, no siempre sale pintado. Siempre ahi esa excepción.

In the new Europe, in any case, nationalism is something of an anomaly, given that the drive is to the elimination of national boundaries and national sovereignty.

By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

Each of these parts has a different father and mother, but he assembled me. The creature was given life eight years earlier in a charnel-house in Prague: An abattoir and me its fruit, its marvellous boy...I was a clean slate, with no memory of what this brain had been, but I knew my condition. Living corruption, a crowd sewn together in one skin. Anarchy in every limb, and bones that ached to go to dust.

The liberty that the free world had enjoyed over the last century was nothing more than an anomaly. A momentary pause between the priests and nobles of antiquity and the politicians and billionaires of the new age. A momentary pause that was coming to its end.

with no warning, skid spectacularly off course.