Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

Thanks to the race-day adrenaline rush, any pace will feel easier than normal. So make a conscious effort to hold back in the early miles.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

That's got to be at least one of the benefits of heaven - never having to act normal again.

That's not normal, because we don't want to be normal. Normal is what weak people call it living. I call it death.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science and administrators in universities.

The dating process is not normal for me.

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 detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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