Quotes About Normal

I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction. There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.

Being normal isn't that miserable. Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness.

Het was een van die zuivere gevoelens die het normale leven niet verstoren, die men koestert omdat ze zeldzaam zijn en waarvan het verlies dieper zou kwetsen dan dat het bezit voldoening schenkt.

And the judges did not believe him, because they were too good, and perhaps also too conscious of the very foundations of their profession, to admit that an average, "normal" person, neither feeble-minded nor indoctrinated nor cynical, could be perfectly incapable of telling right from wrong.

He kept expecting something to happen, some outside force to sweep in and change everything and take him in some new direction, give him a more normal life.

Survival is the thing. The mind will twist to survive. Anything can become normal.

Here is one of life's little shortcuts: If someone is meeting you in their "study," they have money. Normal people have a home office or a family room or maybe a man cave. Rich people have studies. This one was particularly opulent, loaded up with leather-bound books and wooden globes and Oriental rugs. It looked like someplace Bruce Wayne would hang out before heading down to the Batcave. Larry

My point is, maybe before you dismiss others belief ad wacko, you should take a closer look at the stories that normal people find credible.

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

I am very grateful to have beaten my cancer, but it has been tough adjusting to my new normal.

There were ten dancers - four guys and six girls - including me, on the Beyonce tour. Sometimes we would go out with her, to events. She was really normal - just like everybody else!

Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.

You have to be real sharp when you're touring. I'm dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days.

I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I'm close with my family. I'm dating a normal girl. So I want to feel people think I'm a man of the people. Because I feel that way.

You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.

Marry me? Wait. No, no. Incorrect response. It'll just weird her out and make her run again. Normal. Be normal. You can do this. You're not just a great skater. You're a normal great skater

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

In the United States, normal arose within a cultural context as the nation sought to control a growing urban population and Americanize immigrants from around the world. Normalcy, though, is first and foremost an idea that arises from statistics. The normal, norm, or normalcy do not exist in the real world of real people [emphasis mine], despite the fact that we are told that we can modify our behavior and train our bodies and minds to reach it.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.