“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!” PeopleShouldStillsTwoMightRunningLinesAnimalHalfUnited StatesStreetsEventsConversationNormalAmbitionEnglandFortuneSurpriseClimateSizeExtremesAccidentsDrawingFranceHolocaustElephantsExaggerationCartsSurprise MeTrams Author:Elinor Glyn
“I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.” IfsThinkingNeedsSometimesUseSpeakHurtConversationNormalAngryCurseAggressiveProfanityCurse Words Author:Marilyn Manson
“If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingRealConversationNormalPerformancesGet RealMake Someone Happy Author:Jonah Hill
“I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious.” PeopleTryingBitsConversationNormalDialogueEntertainingSitcomWeird ThingsMonologuesSubversion Author:Doc Brown
“You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.” ThinkingMindMayFeelingsFacesUsedEnergyLostEasyHurtDecisionHappenedMagicAmountConversationNormalAngryCleanValuableQuittingVersionsWasting TimeNew BeginningsChanging Your LifeWipeStarting OverBeginningKickingSlateFresh StartTime And EnergyDon't Waste Your TimeGiving Up Is Not An OptionNever SurrenderReplayFeeling DownValuable TimeNew Normal Author:Les Brown
“I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.” PeopleBelieveHardConversationNormalAwkwardHard To Believe Author:Alison Pill
“On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once.” IfsFeelsThreeHoursKnownAirGoes OnConversationNormalDrawsHeavySentencesBlockSlipsBiasCurtainsSwearingProfaneOne SentenceBroadcastersDrapes Author:Dick Enberg
“I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.” ThinkingTryingPersonsFeelingsInterestingParticularConversationNormalHopefully Author:Joel Stein
“What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out of control. But then you start saying, practically, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about the 11 million here? What are we going to do to get some workers we need for the farms? Then people start having a normal conversation.” PeopleNeedsGivingMillionsFocusGroupsMinutesConversationNormalWorkersRageBordersFarmsFocus Groups Author:David Brooks
“I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCommunicationConversationNormalBoundaries Author:John Bishop
“After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring.” EarthSoundBehindsGonePiecesAirMoonConversationNormalLeavingWideNoiseGrassShyMossSecretiveDrowsyHummingbirdsSnoring Book:Leepike Ridge Source: Leepike Ridge
“People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.” PeopleTryingDreamConversationNormal Book:Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.” FeelsMadeLightSunConversationNormalCombinationBehaviourSentimentalFlirtingSkatesEmma Book:One Day Source: One Day