I Tried Being Normal Quotes

#1. Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.

Georgia Cates

#2. Every miracle's got a mundane explanation. [ ... ] and you can choose - you can look at the wonderous surface or you can look at the crud beneath. I want to see the wondrous, believe me. I just know it isn't going to be there when I've finished looking.

Karen Traviss

#3. The everyday man does not enjoy tarrying. Everything, on the contrary, hurries him onward. But at the same time nothing interests him more than himself, especially his potentialities.

Albert Camus

#4. I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so ... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

Daniel Tosh

#5. The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.

Solange Knowles

#7. Most castles in the air are never built. But Walt Disney's was.

Eve Zibart

#8. [Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

Lord Byron

#9. Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.

Chanakya

#10. You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that

William Goldman

#11. Apollo knew well and good that wishes were nothing more than dust held together with hope, impossible to hold and foolish to dwell on.

Annabeth Albert

#12. Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

Fredric Jameson

#13. O Rex Gentium O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti. O King of the nations, and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay. O

Malcolm Guite

#14. A date, "often a boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case, "an offer of a n evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly.

Cassandra Clare