Normally Quotes
614 Normally quotes by 527 unique authors
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not…
— Wallace Stevens
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
— R L Stine
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Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation…
— James Surowiecki
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When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
— Patrick Swayze
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The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
— Matt Taibbi
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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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…
— Linus Torvalds
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Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.
— Jimmy Wales
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The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so…
— Vera Wang
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But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
— Debra Winger
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I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself…
— Steven Wright
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It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously…
— Frans de Waal
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I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.
— Chris Hardwick
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Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend.…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.
— Grant Morrison
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Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people…
— John Ralston Saul
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I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to…
— Anna Quindlen
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
— Paulo Coelho
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Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to…
— Salman Rushdie
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Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and…
— Neal Shusterman
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Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking…
— Samuel Beckett
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That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
— Jane Yolen
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Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot…
— Harvey Mackay
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We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?
— Cassandra Clare
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