“I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.” FeelsLooksLongMadeDreamWantedBeautifulUsedGirlFunWishStuffHairNormalOppositesAbsolutesAmerican DreamSkinnyLightersBeautiful Girl Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.” KindDoeBandNormalOppositesExcitingSoundtracks Author:Tim Gane
“The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.” ImaginationNormalOppositesChaosPerceiveAbnormal Book:The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.” BookStatesHumanityLostWaterImaginationInterestingSeaLandDangerousPlanetsCivilizationLessonsNormalOppositesDifficultyIncreaseErrorsBoundsSpreadSurfaceSaltBarbarismHistory BooksSavageryRaritySalt Water Book:Image and Imagination Source: Image and Imagination
“Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.” ChildrenStatesHandsGovernmentWould BeAmericaPoliticalParentUnitedPartyUnited StatesPlansNormalOppositesConstitutionCirclesCommunismGuaranteesPolitical PartiesSanctityChildren And ParentsSystems Of GovernmentConstitutional Government Author:David O. McKay
“It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.” ThinkingWayHas BeensDifferentRealDifferencesRecordsNormalWindowOppositesAlbumsStoresReal LifeDifferent WaysThrownCategoriesIpodsJust SayingRecord StoresPlaylists Author:DJ Spooky
“I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life.” LightDarknessImagineConditionsDespairNormalOppositesSuicide Author:Julian Barnes