Quotes About Normalcy

I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work ' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'

Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.

Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?

It was the people who tried to seem normal all the time who were really messed up

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

As a kid I was very conscious of trying to be functional and not be too odd.

I'm not an oddball.

I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.

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

could have almost convinced myself that everything was normal. But almost can be a really big word.

Sex discrimination and hate crimes against women don't come from the leather community or its pornography. They occur within contexts like industrial capitalism and marriage that most people take for granted as if they had always existed, like gravity or continental drift. If feminism is going to change the world, it has to focus its critical lens on what most people think is normal, not on what most people think is abnormal.

They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull .

All right, he may not be queer. He's just a nothing, which is worse. He isn't normal enough to have any kind of sex life, if you know what I mean.

if we think we are facing an irresistible cosmic force of evil, it will invariably lead to giving in and giving up—usually with very little resistance. If you can convince yourself that you are helpless, you can then stop struggling and just "let it happen." That will seem a great relief—for a while. You can once more be a normal human being. But then you will have to deal with the consequences. And for normal human beings those are very severe.

In the months since Challenger, Baedecker had found it hard to believe that the country had ever flown so frequently and competently into space. The long hiatus of earthbound doubt in which nothing flew had become the normal state of things to Baedecker, mixing in his own mind with a dreary sense of heaviness, of entropy and gravity triumphant.

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

Then there was a woman, in her mid-fifties about, who in almost every respect was perfectly normal. But this was the way with these people: in so many respects they were normal, there was just that one thing, that one terrible thing.

You know, I'm very near to bein' normal, but I just can't get over the hump.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.