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Quotes About Typical

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.
~ Edgar Degas
Being normal has some significant practical upsides.
~ David Carr
Get down here before you're recognized." "Playing hide-and-seek under the table? Crouching in the dirt? Typical of your kind, but far beneath my dignity." He laughs unsteadily, like he expects I am going to laugh, too. I don't. I ball up my fist and punch him in the stomach, right where I know it will hurt. He staggers to his knees. The goblet drops to the dirt, making a hollow clanking sound. "Ow!" he shouts, and lets me tug him under the table.
~ Holly Black
That's my great-granddaughter you just heard. Gets all her talent from me!" He has appropriated my family in typical Xavier fashion. They don't seem to mind.
~ Liane Moriarty
Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity; now look what you've gone and done. When for one thing it was a jar, not a box, and for another—how many times does she have to say it?—nobody said a word about not opening it!
~ Liane Moriarty
And then, everyone's like, Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity, now look what you've gone and done. When for one thing it was a jar, not a box, and for another, how many times does she have to say it, nobody said a word about not opening it!
~ Liane Moriarty
Oh, you know,' she says, her voice cracking slightly. 'Just your typical level-two fucked-up rich girl having a stupid crisis. Just ignore me. It's best.
~ Lisa Jewell
Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
~ Ed Begley, Jr.
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
~ Timothy Geithner
I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
~ Teddy Sears
'Normal bloke' is my style.
~ James May
I love to do subjects that are very common, relatable.
~ Shoojit Sircar
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
~ Uwe Boll
In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
~ Unknown
I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.
~ Marc Maron
Typical of Sylvia to bring a poinsettia. As though she knew. The congenitally heavy-handed are capable even of unwitting brutalities.
~ Penelope Lively
Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even
~ Peter Straub
It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.
~ Davis Bunn
The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.
~ Paul Greengrass
I just think I'm the average all-American girl.
~ Meghan McCain
I consider myself just as normal as anybody else.
~ Brody Jenner
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
~ Cory Doctorow