Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

The rabbits though and thought. "If we're normal and Leo is normal, then normal is whatever you are!

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

There is no normal life, there's just life.

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.

The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.