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There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God. -- Itzhak Perlman
Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness. -- Marissa Meyer
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers. -- Anne Tyler
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind. -- Aimee Mann
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river. -- William Westney
I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism. -- Robert J. Flaherty
I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips. -- Darynda Jones
I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time. -- Karen Chance
In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact. -- Joan Raphael-Leff
We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing. -- Heinrich Heine
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself. -- Kate Morton
Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth. -- Marissa Meyer
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials. -- Stanley Kubrick
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life. -- Rob Brezsny
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time. -- Albert Einstein
O. J. has an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to makethe cut. He can kill you with a headfake, he can kill you with the swiftness of his legsand the ability to be in a direction at any single second. He also kills you with hisvariation of speed... (on some of the ways O. J. Simpson can kill) -- Howard Cosell
The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book. -- Rick Remender
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really the smaller consequence from killing the child Apocalypse. This is the big consequence. -- Rick Remender
There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated. -- Nolan North
Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction. -- Daniel Pinkwater
Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do. -- Wes Fesler
The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating. -- Mason Cooley
When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened. -- Mason Cooley
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. -- Max Beerbohm
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. -- John Banville
He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore -- Les Dennis
I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. -- Ann Landers
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. -- Jen Knox
Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem. -- Wesley Clark
Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny. -- Max Lucado
I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it. -- Nick Drake
The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. -- Scott Westerfeld
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. -- Camille Paglia
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could. -- Nikki Grimes
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny. -- Nicolaas Bloembergen
There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch. -- Joyce Carol Oates
For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological. -- Charles Bernheimer
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. -- Khalil
At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food. -- M. F. K. Fisher
As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways. -- Lou Lumenick
In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank. -- Stephen Karam
Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors. -- Ron Fournier
For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky. -- Janet Fitch
Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden. -- Timothy Gallwey
I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are. -- Alan Alda
It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it. -- Deborah Eisenberg
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school. -- Jane Smiley
I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite! -- Steve Irwin
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing. -- Karen Russell

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