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Quotes About Typical

Sameness doesn't present us with metaphorical possibilities, whereas difference - from the average, the typical, the expected - is always rich with possibility.
~ Thomas C. Foster
Even though there is a villain here, serious as death. It is this typical American teenager's own Father, trying episode after episode to kill his son. And the kid knows it. Imagine that.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Here we must recognize that the ceremonial law by design is never intended to be an end in itself. It always is prophetically and typically forward-looking, anticipating the coming of the Redeemer and the finalization of salvation through his work. The ceremonial law foreshadowed the eternal truths of Christ's work.
~ Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.
even though we're not capable of spending a full day in a state of blissful depth, this reality shouldn't reduce the urgency of reducing shallow work, as the typical knowledge workday is more easily fragmented than many suspect.
~ Cal newport
I'm pretty boring, as it turns out.
~ Joe Kennedy III
It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.
~ Susan T. Fiske
I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.
~ Blase J. Cupich
By thy first step awry thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment, it has all been a dark necessity. Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion; neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend's office from his hands. It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I feel strangely normal.
~ Charles Bukowski
There's nothing unusual about love.
~ Charles Bukowski
You don't hear many stories about people who grow up, have normal lives, pay taxes and pay bills, have mortgages and have kids. You hear stories about Billy the Kid for a reason.
~ Finn Cole
Thus, says Helmholtz [19], we do not try to construct machines that perform the thousands of acts typical of a man, but rather require that one machine performs a single act and replaces thousands of men.
~ Carlo Cercignani
I say, Rodney, there's one of your typical Scottish 'raggediers' now." His accent was British, exaggeratedly well-bred.
~ Carole Lawrence
I don't believe in astrology - of course, that's very typical of Leos.
~ Wendy Morgan
I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.
~ Emmanuelle Charpentier
I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
~ Hugh Hefner
I am a typical No 9.
~ Aleksandar Mitrovic
I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
~ Francois Nars
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.
~ Lincoln Steffens
I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.
~ Philipp Meyer
It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.
~ Alberto Tomba
Chipotle was going to incorporate all the things I had learned at the Culinary Institute and Stars and really elevate typical fast food.
~ Steve Ells
Well, in the general population, we find differences between the typical male and typical female. For example, males seem to be more interested in systems and females seem to be more interested in people and particularly people's emotions.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
I think I'm fortunate as an actor in that I do seem to get opportunities to play roles that aren't necessarily typical of what I've done before.
~ Martin Henderson