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Quotes About Normal

There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.
~ Valerie Plame
Honestly, my deepest longing was to have a normal relationship, to love and be loved
~ Richelle Mead
We're All Screwed Up In One Way Or Another. It Sort Of Makes You Normal.
~ Ricky Gervais
Even the most normal people teeter all their lives along a narrow line between good and evil; between impulse and judgement, as we may say. Sleep does two things for the normal person. It gives him constant, long periods of respite from the conflict. It also enables his impulses to find a certain fulfilment in dreams, especially his most lawless impulses.
~ Robert Aickman
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.
~ Robert Brault
Hence class struggle, of which the recent emergency measures were an expression, must be seen as a normal phenomenon under the NEP.
~ Robert C. Tucker
a ghost which calls itself rationality but whose appearance is that of incoherence and meaninglessness, which causes the most normal of everyday acts to seem slightly mad because of their irrelevance to anything else.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would be afraid. He didn't know where he was
~ Larry McMurtry
Certainly," Augustus said. "I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.
~ Larry McMurtry
It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normal Assassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard I said. Just vampires, zombies, and werewolves he said. I smiled. Yeah.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY I came up to in 1917 was a shadow of her normal, self-assured self, its population a tenth of that in 1914 before the war, a number lower even than in the years following the Black Death.
~ Laurie R. King
I got my heart checked, report says it's perfectly normal, there is no trace of love in it
~ Rushabh Patel
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.
~ Isidor Isaac Rabi
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.
~ Timothy Gowers
Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.
~ Steve Wozniak
Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
You didn't tell Summer about it, did you?""What?" Gage scoffs. "Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her if some switch is flipped is normal pillow talk.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
~ Peter Shaffer
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
~ Peter Drucker
Except if you're of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a splash of milk in tea is the English way, and even a mug of hot chocolate might seem very normal to us, we are the weird ones.
~ Adam Rutherford
One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.
~ Alain de Botton
One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpoising home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wiesbaden and Luoyang, and that this is just one of many possible worlds.
~ Alain de Botton
When one is beyond love, where does pleasure lie? What does one do, seeing the lustful, disrespectful world going about its business, the young up one another's arse? Was there ever an end to it, this irresistible, normal, subnormal craving for sex? Or did it go tauntingly on?
~ Alan Hollinghurst