Quotes About Anomaly

Again, I repeat, don't ask questions you don't want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)

So I was beginning my new life as a anomaly, which figured about as much as it sucked.

The contemporary Western tenet that we are alone in the universe, conversant only with ourselves, is, in fact, a minority perspective, an anomaly.

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

I am a Leaper: a person who - thanks to some mathematical errors tied to the cosmic interactions of Earth and Sun and bad math on the part of some old timers long ago - is lost in time, born on a day that simply doesn't exist three out of four years.

There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder.

Time that had not come yet—an anomaly in itself—had the fiercest reality for her. It was a hard wind in her face; if she had made the world, every tree would be bent, every stone weathered, every bough stripped by that steady and contrary wind. Lucille saw in everything its potential for invidious change.

Time that had not come yet — an anomaly in itself — had the fiercest reality for her.

Dentro de esta tradición, la prosa literaria creada por Borges es una anomalía, pues desobedece íntimamente la predisposición natural de la lengua española hacia el exceso, optando por la más estricta parquedad.

and the inexplicable prevalence of supernumerary testicles in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

Once is an accident; twice is a coincidence; three times is a conspiracy.

I am the biggest anachronism on Planet Earth.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

A large number merely strange

It is always the exception that sets the rule.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.

Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of eminence. However, there is nothing quite like an anomaly to suck attention away from the droning census records. A suicide hinted at emotion and thought. A closet door was flung open and daylight flooded a skeleton.