Top 100 Quotes About Being Normal
#1. At least you are back to being normal size." She gave a strangled laugh. "If the size of a cucumber on steroids is normal that is.
Charlene Hartnady
#2. I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
Vince Gill
#3. Being normal?1 I have never had this experience.
Ribecca
#4. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...
Cressida Cowell
#5. That is, they choose to be ill because being "normal" is too much like hard work.
Paulo Coelho
#7. For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.
Adora Svitak
#8. Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.
Simone Elkeles
#9. Sometimes, being normal is enough. There's nothing magick could offer me that I couldn't find a way to do without.
Hollow Ryan
#10. I want to look my best, but I'm not a model. I'm not an actress. I'm representing normal girls. It's OK to have a little bit of curve. I'm happy with my body. So many girls come up to me and say, "Thank you for being normal," and I'm proud of that.
Miranda Lambert
#11. I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.
Carrie Underwood
#12. And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
Donald Miller
#13. If someone was ... you know ... going a bit weird in the head-"
"Mental, he means," said Wobbler, behind him.
"Just a bit Over-Strained," said Johnny. "I mean... would they know? Themselves?"
"Well, everyone thinks they're a bit mad,' said Yo-less. "It's part of being normal.
Terry Pratchett
#14. Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.
Georgia Cates
#15. I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.
Val Kilmer
#16. ...being average, being normal. That my friend is an Impossibility
Reshma Valliappan
#17. I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#18. Are you saying being normal is being happy ? in that case , most people probably aren't normal
Alexandra Potter
#19. Design is expected to provide something "new" or "beautiful" or "special". When we look at the things around us with such a mindset, those things outside "design" are viewed as being "normal" or "ugly" in contrast.
Naoto Fukasawa
#20. I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You're a normal human being. What right have you to that?
Doris Lessing
#21. I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
Vince Gill
#22. If you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing
Michel Foucault
#23. Being unique is what's cool man. Being normal? What's that? That's a setting on a washing machine. Nobody wants to be that.
Ashley Purdy
#25. I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.
Kenny Loggins
#26. To the thing that hurts you most. To the paranormal and to never being normal.
Karina Halle
#27. For together with those who themselves being normal, had long put intellects above bodies, were writers, painters, musicians and scholars, men and women who, set apart from their birth, had determined to hack out a niche in existence.
Radclyffe Hall
#28. Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
Nell Carter
#29. I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.
Christina Ricci
#30. I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.
Woody Norris
#31. being normal is unnormal but being imperfect is PERFECT! I know I was different and perfect
Monica Petra
#32. I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.
Maisie Williams
#33. Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.
Rupert Grint
#34. You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
Bill Walton
#36. I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
Yoko Ono
#37. I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.
Christina Ricci
#38. You know, being normal isn't a terrible thing," he says.
"It isn't terrible," I agree. "It's just a lack of courage.
Katie Kacvinsky
#39. If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win.
Max Burns
#40. My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
Alice Hoffman
#41. Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can.
Nic Sheff
#42. Being normal is overrated. Normal gets you what - the dolt husband with the 2.5 kids and the house with the dog? You seriously want that? I mean, one of those kids is going to be really funny looking, by the way, all cut in half like that. Who wants half a kid?
H.M. Ward
#44. I wondered if they got to enjoy being normal, to know just how terrific it was, or whether it was just invisible to them like air?
John Barnes
#45. Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#47. I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens.
Erin Davie
#48. Alex gave me a sad smile. Sometimes being unique is better than being normal. It's what brought us together.
Keary Taylor
#49. There's a time and a place for being normal. For most people, normal is their default setting. But for some, like you and me, normal is something we have to bring out, like putting on a suit for a posh dinner.
Alice Oseman
#50. Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being "normal" and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not.
Alexandra Robbins
#52. Well, it's nice to get something right for a change. You don't know how irritating it is - missing things the way I have been. I feel so useless. So ... normal." She cringed in horror of the word.
"I can't imagine how awful that must feel. Being normal? Ugh.
Stephenie Meyer
#53. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.
Mira Grant
#54. When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.
Dallas Willard
#55. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was normal. So
Maggie Stiefvater
#56. One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
Lorna Luft
#57. In a way, I am a psychological transsexual, always trying to "pass" for a normal person but being clocked every time.
Augusten Burroughs
#58. Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.
David Christian
#59. I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.
Aaron Rodgers
#60. You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.
D.D. Barant
#61. In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.
Jenny Lawson
#62. I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.
Grant Morrison
#63. Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.
Ammon Hennacy
#64. Kayso, Foo finally came home and I jumped into his arms and sort of rode him to the ground with a massive tongue kiss so deep that I could taste the burned cinnamon toast of his soul, but then I slapped him, so he didn't think I was a slut. (Shut up, he had wood.)
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#65. I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
Kevin McCloud
#66. The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.
Daniel Clowes
#67. When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: Valdes, Puyol, Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players.
Lilian Thuram
#68. Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.
Hannah Ware
#69. I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.
Young Jean Lee
#70. I've always had these fantasies about being in a normal family in which the parents come to town and their adult daughter spends their entire visit daydreaming of suicide. I'm here to tell you that dreams really do come true.
Sarah Vowell
#71. It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?
Marcus Aurelius
#72. I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.
Danica McKellar
#73. We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.
Holly Black
#74. This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.
Jennifer Lawrence
#75. Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.
Gilbert Murray
#76. I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.
Kendall Jenner
#77. We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.
Frederick Lenz
#78. As I wisely understand to be recognized
as a normal being to be free forever.
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#79. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#80. Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real "I" to reveal itself.
Paulo Coelho
#81. I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.
Amy Poehler
#82. Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.
Michael Hogan
#83. Nothing else seems out of the ordinary for a horrible haunted forest being inhabited by a child eating witch.
Seanan McGuire
#84. The citizens have "the extraordinary and exhausting practice of sitting down to dinner at any time between 10m and 11 p.m. I found it challenging to stay animated and conversational when my normal bedtime was usually about the time that the first course was being cleared".
Tony Leon
#85. With that, the hologram did dissolve and PROXY returned to his normal appearance and size.
"Ugh," the droid said with a shudder. "I hate being him."
The apprentice stood, deep in thought and nodded. "I think he does too.
Sean Williams
#86. I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal - of a crow or a fox or an owl - and not of a normal human being. I
Peter Swanson
#87. Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.
Douglas Brinkley
#88. Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#89. My mom was always like, "If I know that my kid is having fun, she's gonna do whatever she wants. Whether that's gymnastics, learning the car, acting or just being a normal kid, she's gonna do what makes her happy." That's how I've always lived my life.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#90. Money was money, but I didn't want to waste any time away from Pidge.
She was happier than I'd ever seen her, and for the first time, I felt like a normal, whole human being instead of some broken, angry man.
Jamie McGuire
#91. Because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.
Max Brooks
#92. [My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others are barely seen out of the corner of one's eye.
Daido Moriyama
#93. Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.
Ashley Purdy
#95. I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
Samantha Shannon
#96. By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.
Terence Lewis
#97. Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.
Rupert Grint
#98. There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
B.C. Forbes
#99. We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
Ernest Hemingway,
#100. No one ever said, "This isn't the way normal people live." Again, I think it was the sense of family unity, strengthened by the Averys, that kept me from being too concerned about the quality of our life in Boston.
Ben Carson
