Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

A weird thing happens when you're taken out of your normal clothing and put into USA gear.

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!

Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well.

Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.

Being poor is a normal thing.

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

But what I want most of all is a normal life.

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

Conclusions I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population. II. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of values of the means of such samples, when these values are measured from the mean of the population in terms of the standard deviation of the sample... III. Tables are given by which it can be judged whether a series of experiments, however short, have given a result which conforms to any required standard of accuracy or whether it is necessary to continue the investigation.

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do

Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.

Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.

Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

Donald Trump is not a normal presidential candidate.

During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.

Don't you dare hit me in the head, you know I'm not normal!

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.