“Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.” TurnsWaterProduceNormalGolfLegsRationalLimbsFluidGolfersNeurosisJellyRational Thought Book:The glorious world of golf Source: The glorious world of golf
“Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.” MenTwoWholeEarthWalksDealsBehaviorNormalMethodPatternsLegsBiologyExplainingMammalsHistory Of Life Author:Elaine Morgan
“Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.” MenWayI CanDifferentWalksMissingLike YouOne DayNormalAdultsWake UpTrainLegsDifferent WaysShopping Author:John Darnielle
“I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.” LifeFeelsI CanWholeStuffHoursWalksBehindsCrazyFineNormalLegsMessUnpredictableSymptomsKickingTumors Author:Lauryn Hill
“What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.” IfsKnowsLosesDifferencesOne DayNormalLegsYesterdayHopping Author:Terry Pratchett
“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
“The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.” MenTwoDifferentSimpleWalksConditionsExpressionTheoryNormalEthicsEconomicsShoesLegsDifferent ThingsConfusingFallacyPreoccupationStockings Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton