Unusual Phenomenon Quotes

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.

All I'll say is... I'm at a point in life when nothing feels shocking to me. I need something to shock me! I'm almost ready to see a U.F.O.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.

Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande, great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards, the earth will tremble.

I'm aware of this bearded lady being something that is not really common.

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

Some people are born with a caul. I was born with a jacket.

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

History is filled with weird but true stories of social contagion - from dancing manias in the Middle Ages to nuns pretending to be cats in the 19th century to laughing epidemics of Tanzanian school girls in the 1960s.

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Television makes you very famous. It's very strange.

We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

That's bizarre to see, L.A., downtown, and to feel like you're the only person there.

By golly, there's something unusual going on here. Generally, fish don't attack people.