Quotes About Normalcy

My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Everything went back to normal and there is nothing in it for me as such.

It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society's accepted normalcy

I don't live life to be different.I live life to be the same.

Krankzinnigheid is iets wat alleen door zijn zeldzaamheid wordt bepaald. Als van honderd mensen er vijf en negentig krankzinnig zijn, dan zijn niet zij krankzinnig, maar de vijf, die het niet zijn

You can't become normal by pretending you are.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk—just once—in prose like other people.

When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."

Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.

You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

My parents are the ones who really help me be grounded. I still go to school, I still do fun stuff with my friends; for the most part, I am a normal kid. It just so happens that I do some acting too!

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.