“There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.” KnowsTwoReasonEnoughGuySidesNormalSexyVulnerableTwo Sides Author:Evan Peters
“The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.” KnowsReasonEarthFormOpportunityCreativityDependsHabitNormalSpringAccidentsDisasterExtinctionDinosaursNew OpportunitySpeciation Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“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
“Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.” YearsHas BeensReasonShowsPastUsedPracticeViolenceProtectNormalPrisonSomething NewSolitaryParts Of LifeProtect YouConfinementSolitary Confinement Author:Wilbert Rideau
“Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.” HumansChildrenBookReasonFeelingsGirlEnjoySecretWonderNormalUniversalExcitingFundamentalsBoundsChainsComicIslandsParadiseComic BookSubconsciousSubmissionSequenceChildren LoveAllureWonder WomanUniversal Truth Author:William Moulton Marston
“We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange.” IfsFeelsWritingWellsReasonStrangeWillingHabitNormalPsychologicalInteriors Author:Jennifer Egan
“When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.” PeopleKnowsTryingFirstsLongReasonCoursesNextRealizingResultsFeetEffectsArmsMetsOne DayBehaviorNormalDecidedDramaticPetAnxiousCalmingTappingAberrationFidgetingCalming Effect Author:John Elder Robison
“When you talk to a young teenage girl, they're just full of self-loathing. The reason they feel self-loathing is they don't feel normal. It is a world that has not been built for them. It's been built for men, and that's why they feel bad.” MenWorldFeelsSelfReasonYoungGirlNormalBuiltTeenageLoathingSelf LoathingTeenage Girl Author:Caitlin Moran
“The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.” WritingHumansHeartTwoBookReasonPainSufferingHuman BeingsEmotionalNormalPainfulHeartacheFragileWriting A BookLoving SomeoneEmotional PainBook Writing Author:Joel Dicker
“Normal is normal – and has been called normal for a reason.” Has BeensReasonNormal Author:Michael Glatze
“Development aid is one of the reasons for Africa's problems. If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn't even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.” IfsWorldHardReasonProblemWould BeDevelopmentNormalWestAidsPaymentDevelopment Aid Author:James Shikwati
“There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap, why it's cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You're never sitting there on the 40th page of your spreadsheet, as Buffett would say, agonizing over whether you should buy or not.” ShouldIdeasReasonLevelsHigherNormalPagesSittingBasesClarityTemporaryTradingGreat IdeaHigher LevelGreat BusinessAgonizingBuffett Author:Joel Greenblatt
“I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.” KnowsWayReasonWantedBrainBoysFantasyBecomingNormalOpeningCorpsesSkullsAssistantsOpening UpNeurosurgeons Author:Joseph Brodsky
“How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over global warming? There are many reasons why scientists disagree, the subject, by the way, of an excellent book a couple years ago titled Wrong by David H. Freedman. A big reason is IPCC is producing what academics call "post-normal science" while NIPCC is producing old-fashioned "real science.” WayYearsTwoBookRealMatterReasonBigsTeamSubjectsCoupleNormalYears AgoScientistDebateConclusionPostsExcellentReason WhyGlobal WarmingDisagreeOld FashionedContradictory Author:Joseph L. Bast
“I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.” TryingReasonHouseNormalReason WhyNo Reason Author:John McCain
“In the Western world, women have no other choice. In India, no. And I'll explain the reason. It's a reason that also has to do with my own case. In India women have never been a hostile competition with men - even in the most distant past, every time a woman emerged as a leader, perhaps as a queen, the people accepted her. As something normal and not exceptional.” PeopleMenWorldReasonPastChoicesMy OwnLeaderCasesNormalIndiaCompetitionWesternAcceptedQueensHostileExceptionalWestern World Author:Indira Gandhi
“You can't make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it's quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.” IfsReasonWaitingDecisionDealsIssuesNormal Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle.” IfsMayReasonLeaderPrinciplesEconomicNormalConservativeUglyNobleObjectivesMistakenThreateningModeratesStrategic Author:Noam Chomsky
“When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.” KnowsShouldYearsReasonParentDecisionNormalAngryVersionsFranceFarmers Author:Eddie Vedder
“If you are using a digital camera specifically for that reason you have in mind from the beginning, then yeah, it'll work. But like if you're just shooting a normal film and just kind of just shooting extra stuff because you can because you've got the memory space, it's a bit pointless.” IfsMindKindReasonFilmStuffBitsMemoriesSpaceNormalCamerasYeahShootingExtrasDigitalPointlessDigital Cameras Author:Robert Pattinson
“What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWantWellsHardReasonProblemBlackNormalRedHatsRejectsRubiesSlippersBlack Hats Book:Nailed Source: Nailed
“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.” MenWellsDoeSometimesReasonFactsSufferingNormalBenefitsAdvantageRegardErrorsConvincedWell BeingWelfarePerhaps Love Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.” IfsReasonFactsRealityFitNormalLogicBiggerDefinitionsDataMake SenseBigger PictureShack Book Author:William P. Young
“I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I'm not used to normal. I'm used to disaster. I don't know, as messed up as he is, he's also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I'm accustomed to working for love.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanReasonUsedEasyChallengesNormalExcitingDisasterMessAccustomedMessed Up Author:Augusten Burroughs
“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
“It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.” MenWorldLifeShouldMadeIdeasReasonDoneFeelingsCareYoungEvilDespairNormalYoung ManBombsContemplatingLots Of MoneyViciousDroppingBrutalityPerfectly NormalCallousness Author:John Fowles
“Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.” ReasonLostStrongForceBehindsAliveBloodEventsAdventureDependsNormalMadnessOneselfBreatheReasonableEnterpriseAbandonInvitesGesturesDragInitiativeVentureVeinsVitalityMadmenDoseRustLost Everything Author:Emile M. Cioran