In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That's very different from the way time has normally been understood.
But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing. " Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.
Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.
To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don't have to pull my A or B game out.
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.
Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and. . . Jay McShann. I just found myself in some circumstances, on some gigs or sometimes in clubs, with the ability to talk to some of these people. Just being around their energy and being around that history was invaluable. And what I normally say to young people that are getting into the music, if you can and go. . . now there's less of those folks around, sadly.
I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.
I manage to live pretty normally.
On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.
Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.
All I want to be is normally insane.
I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.
Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.
I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.