Quotes About Anomaly

To a Westerner the anomaly of this—a man under a life sentence for treason working in a prison on the most secret scientific developments—is almost too much to comprehend. In the Soviet Union it was an accepted practice. Korolev was immensely valuable, but because he was so valuable, he was also dangerous. He consented to work because this way, at least, he got some rations, he was with his colleagues, and he was doing what he loved most of all.

The area became known as the Zone of Silence because normal radios do not work within the 1,500 square mile area. Some sort of interference generated within the zone jams the signals.

The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

se ahonda en la anomalía, en lo repugnante y mezquino como si nuestra norma fuese la del respeto y la generosidad y la rectitud y hubiese que analizar microscópicamente cuanto se sale de ella: como si la mala fe y la tradición, la malquerencia y la voluntad de daño no formaran parte de esa norma y fueran cosas excepcionales, y merecieran por ello todos nuestros desvelos y nuestra máxima atención. Y no es así.

nadie renuncia a la posibilidad de contar algo anómalo.

State power has not only been thus concentrated at Washington, but it has been so far concentrated into the hands of the Executive that the existing regime is a regime of personal government. It is nominally republican, but actually monocratic; a curious anomaly, but highly characteristic of a people little gifted with intellectual integrity.

Nevertheless there was an anomaly here. We were all supposed to respect our government and its laws, yet by all accounts those who were charged with the conduct of government and the making of its laws were most dreadful swine; indeed, the very conditions of their tenure precluded their being anything else.

I am an anomaly in my country. I hope, in the coming years, there will be more women like me.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

On a généralement, en Europe, une tendance à s'exagérer l'importance du Bouddhisme, qui est certainement de beaucoup la moins intéressante de toutes les doctrines orientales, mais qui, précisément parce qu'il constitue pour l'Orient une déviation et une anomalie, peut sembler plus accessible à la mentalité occidentale et moins éloigné des formes de pensée auxquelles elle est accoutumée.

In Europe one generally has the tendency to exaggerate the importance of Buddhism, which is certainly the least interesting of all the Eastern doctrines, but which precisely because it constitutes a deviation and anomaly for the East can seem more accessible to the Western mentality and less foreign to its customary forms of thinking.

They said he used to cackle and bark in his crib after dark. They said he walked at two months and sat staring at the moon whenever it shone. Those were things that people said. His parents were always worried about him. An only child, they noticed his flaws quickly. They thought he was blind until the doctor told them it was just a vacuous stare.

Hazel frowned. Why that one? You don't see the ghost? Frank asked. Ghost? Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.

Barrage balloons dotted the sky like blind whales bobbing around in the wrong element.

Everything was askew—this whole time on earth, his time for being alive, was aberrant. Three

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.

Topological anomaly? Topological anomaly? Don't you mean witchcraft ? Don't you mean the end of civilisation? Don't you mean some kind of spooky thing that we know nothing, absolutely fucking nothing about, to go with everything else we don't know?

anomaly, when in fact it's how the girl usually eats: head down, minimal conversation, maximum speed in clearing what she'll eat from her plate.

Things are always happening to my socks. One's always going off someplace. I don't know why.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.