“What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.” PeopleIfsWritingReasonFactsUseCoursesBloodCryNormalPrisonIllPrisonerAutonomyFrustratingInkRestrictionMentally Ill Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty
“The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].” WorldHumansMayWarEndsAsksPiecesBloodBedNormalEatingShotsHungerWar Of The WorldsBoredomFollyBombsReportsSpiteClimbsChairsWorld War IiEntertainingWorld War IAgain And AgainCanvasNaziSheetsPersecutionCavesSpectatorsDistinguishedPardonGrotesqueBed Sheets Author:Max Beckmann
“Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.” MenMeanLongHas BeensImpossibleBloodConditionsDrinkNormalMen And WomenNobleBourbon Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography
“If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.” IfsThinkingWayLittlesPersonsBigsUsedBitsDealsRiskBloodExerciseNormalLittle BitPressureAddFatsFactorsBig DealOverweightBlood PressureCholesterolHigh Blood Pressure Author:Bill Vaughan
“I want people to know that blood tests alone won't always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantBloodDiseaseNormalTestsThyroidBlood Tests Author:Kim Alexis
“I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.” BloodNormalLowsNervousPlusChemicalsSugarAdulthoodAdolescenceBreakdownImbalanceNervous BreakdownBlood Sugar Author:Mel Brooks
“If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.” IfsBloodNormalPatientToleranceDietsSugarRequirementsBlood Sugar Author:Frederick Banting
“I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.” CharacterActorsLostLevelsBloodNormalPressureFatsPoundsTransitionSaltCharacter ActorsBlood Pressure Author:Ron Perlman
“Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.” BloodMinutesNormalMachinesPressureAskingInterviewsScreamSpectacularHookedRottingBlood Pressure Author:Lewis Black
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning” FeelsMindHumansRealityHuman BeingsAbilityCompassionGoneBloodHairNormalSkinsVictimCornersFleshIntenseCharacteristicsRoughOf My MindResemblancePsychoImitatingDepersonalization Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.” GirlGamesKnowingBloodPeriodsNormalLegsHallsNurseTailsRabbitsVolleyballLiverPadsAspirin Book:Cat's Eye Source: Cat's Eye
“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.” PeopleHumansDoeSoulReasonEyeNightChoicesFallSpeakStarsBloodWindNormalMouthsEarsSeasonsStormFleshGravesWeatherDustSinnerAutumnAbyssSnakesVeinsWormsTombsTickFrenzyToads Author:Ray Bradbury