Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and…

I feel like I've won a decent amount of tournaments for only being a pro for four years; however, they have been at low…

— Viktor Hovland

If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to…

— Judith Thurman

“But there was change in the air, and whether for good or ill, change always quickens the pulse and sharpens the senses.”

— Karen Engelmann

“I suddenly realized that there's something about singing hymns with a large group of people that sharpens the senses remarkably. I stored this observation…

— Alan Bradley

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

— John Updike

Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should…

— Naomi Klein

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

— Camille Paglia

“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an…

— Irving Kirsch

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the…

— Breyten Breytenbach

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as…

— Anonymous

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved…

— Bear McCreary

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

— Henry Adams

“The abnormal ones stand out. Thankfully I'm abnormal.”

— Marion Bekoe

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders…

— Andrew Weil