Anomalies Quotes

• We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

  

  James Brown
  • States
  • Anomalies

• And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist--

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Novelists
  • Anomalies

• The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Ideas

• Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • May
  • Privacy
  • Anomalies

• A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Car
  • Broken
  • Cat

• In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that wants to believe that the text is somehow special. Numerological tricks, for example, can demonstrate that William Shakespeare wrote the 'King James Bible.'

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Believe
  • Anomalies
  • William Shakespeare

• How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Reality
  • Lying
  • Achieve

• 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

• Nothing was written in stone. Neither the mother’s personality, nor the infant’s neurological anomalies at birth, nor its IQ, nor its temperament—including its activity level and reactivity to stress—predicted whether a child would develop serious behavioral problems in adolescence.20 The key issue, rather, was the nature of the parent-child relationship: how parents felt about and interacted with their kids. As with Suomi’s monkeys, the combination of vulnerable infants and inflexible caregivers made for clingy, uptight kids. Insensitive, pushy, and intrusive behavior on the part of the parents at six months predicted hyperactivity and attention problems in kindergarten and beyond.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Mother
  • Personality
  • Written

• Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Believe
  • Folks
  • Anomalies