Quotes About Anomaly

I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages.

The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

Being born with a talent or an inclination for goodness is the aberration.

Exception. Dites qu'elle confirme la règle. Ne vous risquez pas à expliquer comment.

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.

Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches...men should not have the heads of crocodiles...

and mentally aberrant type.

for the soapy, greenish-black stone with its golden or iridescent flecks and striations resembled nothing familiar to geology or mineralogy.

I can touch my eyebrows with my nose. Look at that! That's not normal. I shouldn't be able to do that.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

Into many lives a little irregularity must fall.

Mr. Arevalo was very tall and stooped when he walked, He had a woman's voice and a dog's face.

What's one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness?

The next few rooms held a severed hand that was trying to grow itself a new body; a Time Agent whose latest regeneration had gone terribly wrong, turning him inside out; and a sorry-looking werewolf with mange.

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.

Michael and I are an anomaly. Hardly anyone stays together forever with their first significant other, except maybe in YA novels. And usually when they do, it's because he's a vampire or a werewolf or owns a beautiful estate called Pemberley or something.

The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It's an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.

I think the diplomatic-security needs in Iraq were an anomaly. There's never been a bulge of requirements that large ever before.

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

may have resulted from abnormal wiring in the serotonergic system of his brain. Other

We first knew something was up when the construction chief pulled out a stethoscope and started listening to the wall.