“If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” PeopleIfsFeelsIdeasRealWholeHomeStuffSeeingNormalSittingTradeBoxesBoringToysNew ThingsNew IdeasBoring Life Author:Alex Day
“It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.” KnowsDifferentGirlHouseSocialCenturyCreaturesNormalSittingStructureDinner20th CenturySitting DownDianaSocial Structure Author:Manolo Blahnik
“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've just been livin' a normal life, going shopping, going out, gettin' pissed. I keep sitting on my arse doing nothing.” NormalSittingShoppingGoing OutDoing NothingNormal LifeArses Author:Lady Sovereign
“Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.” YearsStatesEnoughUnitedUnited StatesNormalPercentSittingBreathsBurningFlamesConvertingKentuckyUraniumPlutonium Author:Bill Gates
“I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.” PeopleYearsPersonsJobsCoupleNormalSittingConferencesDensPantiesPerfectly Normal Author:Linus Torvalds