Quotes About Anomaly

sociosexual propagation misfits.

Peter's anomaly

Normal is the average of deviance.

Women in love made sacrifices. That was simply what they did. He'd watched the world over the span of his life, and for the great majority of it, women had yielded to the men they desired. Surely the last fifty years had been an anomaly.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

Everything is different and nothing is same in the universe."

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Sometimes I forget that being a skeleton is unusual,

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

We lack the analogies' was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere after encountering Area X.

The door might not have been created by whatever had created Area X.

Severe cases of Turner's, where a girl's second X chromosome was missing entirely, were easy to identify. Small stature plus certain telltale physical features—low-set ears, a low hairline, folds of excess skin at the sides of the neck—could have no other cause.

Je dis la folie, et non point la démence. La démence est la perte des facultés intellectuelles. La folie n'est qu'un usage bizarre et singulier de ces facultés.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly.

Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

he doesn't have the normal share of miterosis.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

Society, you're a crazy breed.

In all other construction disciplines, engineers plan a construction strategy that craftsmen execute. Engineers don't build bridges; ironworkers do. Only in software is the engineer tasked with actually building the product. Only in software is the ironworker tasked with determining how the product will be constructed. Only in software are these two tasks performed concurrently instead of sequentially. But companies that build software seem totally unaware of the anomaly.

This time she was sure she managed a grin. 'I can't figure you, Hicks. Soldiers aren't supposed to be optimists.' 'Yeah, I know. You're not the first to point it out. I'm a freakin' anomaly.

'A dog bites a man'—that's a story; 'A man bites a dog'—that's a good story...

A range of different types of consciousness is available to human beings. It's a kind of anomaly that postmodern Western culture has narrowed the range of that what we are encouraged to have. Maybe it's not so much a transformation we are speaking of, but an opening. It's a reclaiming.32