#norm

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. ↗

— John Cleese

#alimony #always #become #business #compulsion

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beautiful #beautiful girls #holocaust #i #life

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#becomes #conclude #futile #norm #people

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#certain #certain way #compelled #cultural #down

I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women. ↗

— George Clooney

#being #comes #down #feel #hunted

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#armaments #burdensome #came #enormous #governments

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#american #big #book #conspiracy #family

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#comes #compromise #dignity #failure #having

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#because #behaving #better #better off #end

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. ↗

— Jack Vance

#checks #enormous #gotten #haven #i