Quotes About Normalcy

I don't think a young person ever really quite knows what's going on when their norm becomes going to the grocery store with sunglasses on at 11 years old. It's kind of weird, and I'll say it also went to my head the first little season, because that became normal for me.

P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.

It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

You're your truest self when you're young, and when somebody says something, and you're like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not normal,' you shut it down. It's always a process to rediscover those parts of yourself.

Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents - how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.

Every day is not perfect. You have your bad days and good days just like anyone else. You do not want to talk to people sometimes. It is normal.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

You look like a normal person, if you can find a normal person who wants to look like that.

Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

If the member's cult identity seems healthy, it could be co-opting the talents and skills of the authentic self. The result is that, to the untrained eye, cult members can appear completely normal. Asking questions that test a person's thoughts and free will is the only way to evaluate the extent of destructive influence.

Tomorrow I would resume the normal pattern of my life.

It's amazing what you can get used to, given time.

The Incredible Woman raged through the skies, lassoed a planet, set it in orbit, rescued a starship, flattened a mountain, straightened a building, smiled at a child, caught a few thieves, all in one morning, and then, took a little time off to visit her psychiatrist, since she is at heart a really womanly woman and all she wants is a normal life.

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.

I spend 70% of my time laughing. I don't walk around all dark. I might take my photos like that because I'm not a clown. But I'm a really soft, feminine, gentle, normal guy.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

It must be really difficult to be normal.