Quotes About Anomaly

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

In view of the anomalous relation that consciousness has to the very physical notion of time, as was described at the beginning of this section, it seems to me to be at least possible that there is no such clear-cut 'time' at which a conscious event must occur.

No specimen jars. No weird stuff pickled in formaldehyde.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

There is no normality in life.

Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson

Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal.

Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal. Kalyvas is, among other things, the

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

years an anomaly. Not only is the terrain of Buck more suited to hound-hunting, but also hounds are more suited to the larger game that is usually the prey of mounted hunters. A lively pack of hounds, boiling and baying, is a fine accompaniment for a royal hunt. The cat, when it is employed, is usually

Los movimientos socialmente anómalos dejan fisuras en el entramado convencional por donde se escapan los espíritus más libres

Vendors still shivering in the still-cool air gathered around me, pushing their wares-chewing gum, biscuits, baby rattles, cigarettes, sold individually or by the pack. I didn't want anything, but they kept standing there; they had nothing else to do. A white man is such an anomaly, a foundling from another planet, that is it possible to stare at him with interest almost forever.

It was an age of freaks, monsters, and grotesques. All the world was misshapen in marvelous and malevolent ways.

Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.

Statistics, Jenny had learned early on, never mattered when they applied to you, not if you were the one in a thousand who'd been struck by lightning

By examining what's normal, we begin to recognize and identify what's abnormal.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

that wasn't mere beauty, but an aberration of heaven

A weird twist in the fabric of the universe

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality