Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange.

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

We're out of nuclear-crisis mode and into normal, day-to-day crisis mode.

What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

What makes me unique is that, I'm normal.

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

When a newspaper comes out that says 'Duff' Puff - she must have gained 15 pounds' or something like that, how would any normal person react?

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

When you're 19, a threesome is normal. It's fun.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it.

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

Why can't I say anything normal?

Why be normal? What's the point?

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.

Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?