Uncanny Quotes

There`s an uncanny thing that chemically happens to you when you`re in the chronic stages of alcoholic drinking. I have been able, on occasions, to have two bottles of vodka and still be up talking to people. That got very frightening. By nature I`m an isolationalist, so my boozing was at home, thank you. I was not a goer-outer. I mean, I didn`t drink for the taste and I didn`t want to be social. Someone once described alcoholics as egomaniacs with low self-esteem. Perfect definition.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there`s a shot from the bumper of a car and it`s going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn`t, thank God.

He is the consummate point guard -- his demeanor, his vision, his sense of the game, his decision-making. It`s uncanny. I would love to say that I taught him all of that, but I can`t quite claim all that.

I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog`s tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.

It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... `I trust you; do what you must,` life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

Gary`s an interesting guy. I like Gary, he`s very different, ... All his antics and his talking, you have to admire him for backing it up. He has an uncanny ability to do it when it counts. Don`t try to figure him out '” he`s like Dennis Rodman, without the tattoos.

This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take us, I mean, way back. I mean sure, they want to go back before the 70's and the 60's to the 50's, no doubt about that. They also want to go back before the New Deal to the 20's, well they also want to go back before the Progressive Era to the Gilded Age. Well, not quite, they also want to go back before the Emancipation Proclamation to the days of slavery, not even, what they want to do is take us back to a moment prior to the Enlightenment; they want to take us back to a moment when faith registered more than reason. They want to take us back to an imaginary age of absolute moral clarity, when good was good and evil was evil and everyone could see the difference. They want to take us back to an imaginary Manichean age when you're either with us or against us, which means you either are us or we'll exterminate you because we can only tolerate ourselves, we can only tolerate those who share our values. If this movement were to be given a name, I think it would most appropriate to call it Christo-Fascism, and if anyone objects to my using the word fascism, because it seems so redolent of the Axis powers, and after all we valiantly defeated fascism once, well understand this about fascism, when it arrives it never shows up in the discarded costume of some other country, and when fascism comes here, its not going to be wearing a toothbrush mustache with a luger in his belt and go goose-stepping around the mall, because that's Germany. And its precisely characteristic of fascism, that it seems absolutely, totally expressive of the homeland, it seems completely familiar, it's when 150% America puts a flag on it's lapel and a cross around it's neck and a real folksy way a talkin', but just because it's red, white and blue, doesn't mean it's American.