“I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.” MenHumansFactsCertainForceTermMemoriesVirtueMinesTypeReaderNormalMessagesClothesLuckCuriosityProphetDistressDistrustGood MemoriesDetestMetaphoricalSeersMaelstrom Author:Primo Levi
“I would say natural is the best way to describe the real me. I'm not always going out or dressed up like I am on the red carpet. On a normal day, I wear normal clothes and wear little to no make-up. I'm always a bit girly, though.” WayLittlesRealBitsNaturalNormalClothesRedBest WayGoing OutCarpetRed CarpetDressed UpGirlyReal Me Author:Paris Hilton
“They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.” StrongAtheismStreetsNormalClothesCornersTreatmentProphecyProtestantsJerusalemGroundingStreet Corners Book:Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory Source: Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.” NeedsStillsHumorJobsOrderHousePayCarNormalClothesEmptyDrivingTrafficGetting Dressed Author:Ellen Goodman
“I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.” FeltEnjoyNormalClothesFancyEnjoyableJacketsFancy Clothes Author:Meryl Streep
“I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.” CareHouseStuffAnswersPayFansDogGoes OnQuietNormalClothesLettersBillsMeetingsTake CareBoardsMailPacksFilesWashingBoard Meetings Author:Sandra Cisneros
“You just wanted to be normal. It wasn't even being beautiful. I just wanted to be smooth and thin and have, and you know, have beautiful glossy hair and lovely clothes and be able to walk in heels. And I thought that once I did all of that stuff that my life would begin.” KnowsAbleWantedBeautifulStuffWalksHairNormalClothesLovelyHeelsSmoothBeing Beautiful Author:Caitlin Moran
“I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.” PeopleKnowsLongCareAgeRocksNormalSummerClothesDon't CareInappropriateMidwestBikinis Author:Liz Phair
“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?” MenHas BeensFeelingsPastLyingSoundTalkingListeningBedNormalSummerClothesOrdinaryGet UpPeacefulEveningMaking LoveCompulsionSummer Evening Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Normal? What's that?" "How you really look." "Can you take off all your clothes?" Okay weirdest thing ever-I just asked myself to take off all my clothes. It doesn't get much creepier. "Why on earth would I do that?" "You asked me to be naked; I thought it was only fair.” LooksEarthNormalClothesFairsOkayNaked Book:Paranormalcy Source: Paranormalcy
“But looking at this closet, so nice and arranged with their crazy lives at rest among these carefully placed clothes and footwear, she felt good about where they were. "Normal" was not a bad things in this lunatic world; it really was. No matter how it happened to be defined.” WorldMatterFeltNiceHappenedCrazyNormalClothesDefinedBad ThingsClosetsLunaticFootwearCrazy Life Author:J.R. Ward