“The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.” UseCertainEffortBrainDrugThousandNormalYogaResourcesMethodTechniquePermitReductionExaggerationFractionsClumsy Author:Tom Robbins
“Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.” YearsTwoLawThreePlanetsThousandNormalHappeningsHundredYears AgoNew ThingsThousand YearsNormal Things Author:Jimmy Cliff
“The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.” HumansChildrenRunningHouseCreativeThousandNormalDetailsOccupationFeedingHuman RelationshipsContemplativeCreative LifeContemplative Life Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.” IfsWantFeelsWellsMightGirlEmotionTroubleThousandNormalDancingCommittedExtremesMilesMoodUnhappyJust BeingInappropriateSaddestEcstaticThousand MilesBeing Unhappy Book:Namedropper Source: Namedropper
“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.” TwoFallLevelsFiveThousandNormalTwentiesTwenty FiveRestoringNormality Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy