Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

In real life you get out of the shower naked, so why wouldn't you do it on screen? It's just a normal thing.

In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.

In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because I don't like having things on my face.

In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies changed in a way that lowered normal employment.

In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

I remember during Oscar season, the thing I hated most was being talked to differently; people treat you differently. And then I suddenly understood why celebrities can be so weird; it's hard to act normal when no-one treats you normally.

I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. This has been normal for me.

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.

I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being.

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

I take on everybody's problems. I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very normal, down-to-earth person.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

I think because I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said. It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I’d just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

I thought America needed to see what a normal family was really like.

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.

It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you’re cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)

It's a normal way of doing business.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.