Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.

the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.

The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

The normal make a living. The deranged make history.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I.

The normal economic system works itself.

The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.

The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, “does right” and just pursues everybody’s best interests is a fantasy. Each individual nation will be pursuing their best interests. That’s the normal behavior of nation-states. It shouldn’t surprise us, but neither should we go to them for permission to do what’s in our national interests.

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 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 most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.