Top 60 An Anomaly Quotes
#1. The jury system was somewhat of an anomaly, like everything else in the law.
Kenneth Eade
#2. 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
#3. We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
James Brown
#4. Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
Ace Antonio Hall
#5. Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had never been able to take apart.
Philip K. Dick
#6. In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly ... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
Marcia Gay Harden
#7. One event is an anomaly, two is a coincidence, and three a pattern.
William Alexander
#8. An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
Criss Jami
#9. 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
#10. Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.
Junot Diaz
#11. Well, it's an anomaly! He must have received the wrong dosage. That's what happens when you put these matters in the hands of morons.
Wodke Hawkinson
#12. Nowhere in the world do you find this evenness that people use as a norm. And I find it fascinating that they will hold up as a norm something that has never been seen on this planet, and regard as an anomaly something that is seen in country after country.
Thomas Sowell
#13. And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
Vanessa Carlton
#14. In the new Europe, in any case, nationalism is something of an anomaly, given that the drive is to the elimination of national boundaries and national sovereignty.
Theodore Dalrymple
#15. It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
Gerry Spence
#16. Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation.
Abhijit Naskar
#17. 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.
Jewel
#18. Russia had always been an anomaly. Here they were, in the center of the city that had burned down around Napoleon's army, having "traditional" Russian cuisine that had been invented by the French.
Kenneth Eade
#19. One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
B.R. Ambedkar
#20. A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.
Edgar Allan Poe
#21. 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.
Meg Cabot
#22. I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate. I occupy that no man's land - no woman's land - between youth and old age.
Linda Gillard
#23. My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.
Pete Townshend
#24. Privacy may actually be an anomaly.
Vint Cerf
#25. 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.
Steve Carell
#26. didn't know what a date was and I wasn't an anomaly. Most of the girls I knew didn't get asked out on dates. People got together through alcohol and a process of elimination. If they had anything in common beyond that they would go out and have a conversation.
Stephanie Danler
#27. Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly. We do exist.I know several other actors who have made their living, instead of a waitress job, framing houses or blacktopping roads.
Nick Offerman
#28. Anything that isn't traditional for women apparently requires that we remind people what an anomaly it is, even when it becomes less and less of an anomaly. I
Carrie Brownstein
#29. I am a spectacle, an anomaly even among the anomalies.
Tahereh Mafi
#30. A truly great life. That is what humanity deserves. Not an average life, not even a normal one-a life in which genius is not an anomaly but an expectation. But to achieve such things
Madeleine Roux
#31. 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
#32. Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all events as modern culture would have you believe, but the most natural thing in the world, inseparable from and just as natural as its polarity - birth.
Eckhart Tolle
#33. 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.
Marilynne Robinson
#34. Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
#35. I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.
Alicia Witt
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Just seven years ago there was no iPhone, no video streaming, most people didn't what a "tweet" was and Facebook was an anomaly only a few college kids had heard of. Yet, right now, there are more cell phones on the planet than there are people.
Travis Cody
#39. Those years were just an anomaly, historically speaking, the Commander said, just a fluke. All we've done is return things to Nature's norm.
Margaret Atwood
#40. We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
#41. 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
#42. Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
Steve Earle
#43. From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.
Thandie Newton
#44. Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.
H.P. Lovecraft
#45. I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.
Mary Harron
#46. One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.
Henry Miller
#47. I DIDN'T KNOW what a date was and I wasn't an anomaly. Most of the girls I knew didn't get asked out on dates. People got together through alcohol and a process of elimination.
Stephanie Danler
#48. An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.
Georges Canguilhem
#49. She had been made to break an accepted social law, but no law known to the environment in which she fancied herself such an anomaly.
Thomas Hardy
#50. And it's easy to be cynical about death when you're young. When you are young, death is an anomaly. It's not real. It only affects other people.
Neil Gaiman
#51. Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep ... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home ... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.
Tucker Carlson
#52. Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!
Jules Verne
#53. An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
John Stott
#54. The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 - and everyone is unusual in one way or another - you were an isolated anomaly. Now you're a Web ring, a Yahoo category.
Virginia Postrel
#55. I realize that Camilla is out very own statistical anomaly, an outlier that no one seems to know where to place.
Melissa Keil
#56. For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.
Lynn Shelton
#57. The crisis created by an inability to distinguish the Bible on race from the Bible on slavery meant that when the Civil War was over and slavery was abolished, systemic racism continued unchecked as the great moral anomaly in a supposedly Christian America.
Mark A. Noll
#58. I'm aware me getting a role out of Chicago as a complete unknown is an insane anomaly, so I knew I'd have to get out here to L.A. as soon as the door opened.
Allison Tolman
#59. The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
Jean Baudrillard
#60. As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
Simon Newcomb
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