Anomalies famous quotes

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.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Knowledge #Survival #Anomalies

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
-- Alphonse Daudet

#Anomalies #Promptness #Falsehood

We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.
-- Arthur Kleinman

#Mean #Thinking #Anomalies

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.
-- Cornelia Parker

#Country #Anomalies #Thumbs

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Dark #Vampire #Anomalies

...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
-- Muriel Barbery

#Self #Anomalies #Grotesque

Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger
-- Pico Iyer

#Writing #Parent #Anomalies

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
-- Pico Iyer

#Writing #Anomalies #Letters

Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.
-- R. A. Lafferty

#Science #Anomalies #Fit

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.
-- Robert Pattinson

#Twilight #Character #Anomalies

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
-- Robert Venturi

#Order #Giving #Anomalies

Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Disappointment #Dysfunction #Anomalies

The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever.
-- Viktor Schauberger

#Character #Anomalies #Fever

Privacy may actually be an anomaly,
-- Vinton Cerf

#May #Anomalies #Privacy

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
-- W. S. Gilbert

#Thinking #Novelists #Anomalies

Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.
-- Wyndham Lewis

#Anomalies #Coats #Top Hats

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.
-- Dennis O'Neil

#Media #Anomalies #Venture

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.
-- Keith Rabois

#Looks #Behaviour #Anomalies

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.
-- Kevin Grevioux

#Doors #African American #Anomalies

Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on.
-- Michael J. Silverstein

#Discovery #Details #Anomalies

The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at - explaining those anomalies.
-- Daniel Bruhl

#Data #Keys #Anomalies

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.
-- Emily James Smith Putnam

#Anomalies #Planets #Deals

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.
-- Georges Canguilhem

#Diversity #Doe #Anomalies

It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Impact #Important #Anomalies