Top 100 Quotes About Normal
#1. My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.
Bill Gates
#2. Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.
Emily Mortimer
#3. Fucking morning people, they just don't understand what it a chore it is for us normal people to not want to leave our warm beds and face the miserable sun.
Katelin LaMontagne
#4. You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.
Christoph Waltz
#5. You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.
Jerry Seinfeld
#6. When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Tatum O'Neal
#7. I am normal. I belong. I have a friend who can kick ass from a wheelchair. I live independently and get good grades. I'm an excellent lover.
Like I said. I'm awesome. I'm Emmet David Washington. Train Man. The best autistic Blues Brother on the block.
Heidi Cullinan
#8. To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine
J.R. Ward
#9. Later, when she came to know of the letters he wrote to Congress about Darfur, the teenagers he tutored at the high school on Dixwell, the shelter he volunteered at, she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine but had, instead, a firm reed of goodness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#10. I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.
Eoin Colfer
#11. I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have
poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn't
that what normal mothers and daughters did?
Richelle Mead
#12. I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.
Cat Cora
#13. Who's to say what normal? We're all weird in some way. I'm not conforming to what society think I should be. I'm gonna let my freak flag fly.
Grace Risata
#14. That man is ... odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino
Umberto Eco
#15. Everyone is normal until you get to know them.
Dave Sim
#16. My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that's the reason they go off the deep end.
Joseph Mazzello
#17. He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
Umberto Eco
#18. You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.
Hayden Panettiere
#20. Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.
Adam Levine
#21. Should I tolerate it as normal male behaviour, like when he gets a cold and starts Googling nose cancer symptoms discharge nostrils?
Sophie Kinsella
#22. What a gift it was to be normal! We're all walking on these unseen tightropes when really we could slip at any second and come face to face with all the existential horrors that only lie dormant in our minds.
Matt Haig
#23. I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be ... this person who's not ... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not ... Autistic.
Nancy Werlin
#24. I'm saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal - assuming that ever happens - I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I'm done walking away from things I want just because they don't come easily. You're worth the work.
Rachel Vincent
#25. I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person ... It's not good to have a life without responsibilities, you know ?.
Liv Tyler
#26. Normal is boring. Weird is better. Goats are awesome, but only in small quantities.
Jenny Lawson
#27. Love, you're a goddess. You were never normal.
Lia Davis
#28. She was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.
Ruth Frances Long
#29. By the time she yanked on her old jeans and a battered plaid flannel shirt, she felt almost normal. Calm, as she plugged in the coffee pot. But the nightmare was still very much on her mind, because it wasn't a dream ...
It was a memory.
Dani Harper
#30. You have to discard your own stereotypes. Remember, there's no such thing as normal.
Amy S. Wilensky
#31. I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
J.K. Rowling
#32. We just want to identify the "real" freaks, so we can feel closer to normal. In reality, not a single one of us is so magically normative as to claim the right to separate out the freaks from everyone else. We are all freaks to someone. Maybe even - if we're honest - to ourselves.
Kate Bornstein
#33. I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.
Kelly Preston
#34. I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.
Walter Mosley
#35. I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.
Jared Harris
#36. It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
Albert Camus
#37. Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#38. Our world were both dark, and nothing would be normal, but together we would make our own world filled with light and love. This is what happens when soul mates finally join as one. The stars align, the heavens sing, and everything else fades away.
Angela Richardson
#39. Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do
Tony Greig
#41. Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.
Michael Leunig
#42. Is this normal, I wonder? But then, what is normal?
Kate Atkinson
#43. Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed ... normal.
Nicholas Sparks
#44. Victor claims these kinds of things don't go on in normal households, but I'm pretty sure this entire incident could be blamed on the fact that I have several real-life sleep disorders. This is not too surprising considering I collect neurological disorders like other people collect comic books.
Jenny Lawson
#45. I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not.
Lewis Black
#47. Beth sighed. "I want a relationship, but then again ... I don't." To her surprise, Grandfather cackled. "That's quite normal, my girl. Quite normal indeed. There are no guarantees in this life. You have to take what you can get and enjoy it while you have it.
Karen Hawkins
#48. There is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal. There is only the natural, the normal, and mysteries we have yet to explain.
Michael Shermer
#49. It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#50. In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.
Paul Graham
#52. We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.
Carol Vorderman
#53. I know that life is not simple because I am not simple. In fact, I am learning that I am more than simple and less than normal. To fall in love with a boy is one thing, but to fall in love with you best friend's boy because of a dream is ... well, I'm fucked.
Tarryn Fisher
#54. The flight was extremely normal ... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
Pete Conrad
#55. What takes more courage - doing what's normal and being miserable, or admitting what you need in order to be happy?
Susannah Sandlin
#57. I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments ...
James Elkins
#58. I stared at the doors and rewound the evening wondering how I got myself in this latest predicament. Without lemon drops to blame (I had diet with my spicy beef burrito), I could only blame the power tools. Now what normal girl got turned on by power tools? I was so weird!
Kristen Ashley
#59. Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.
Jennifer Damiano
#60. I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.
Tim Howard
#61. When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
Mireille Guiliano
#62. I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable.
Michelle N. Onuorah
#63. One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#64. You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how strange, feels normal because you're trained to see it that way. You're brainwashed.
J.M. Darhower
#65. Normal people open their doors. People who have something to hide keep them closed.
Alessandra Torre
#66. Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.
Marsden Wagner
#67. I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.
Michael Longley
#68. My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem.
Len Dawson
#69. A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Money is a form of alchemy, [ ... ] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.
Jasper Fforde
#71. Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
Giulio Douhet
#72. I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.
Peter Lerangis
#73. in BRCA-1 has a 50 to 80 percent chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime (the gene also increases the risk for ovarian cancer), about three to five times the normal risk.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#74. Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
Madeleine L'Engle
#75. People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
Assata Shakur
#76. That is why it's so fun to make movies ... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.
Meg Tilly
#77. Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
Billy Eichner
#78. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal. Even those periods which we think most tranquil, like the nineteenth century, turn out, on closer inspection, to be full of crises, alarms, difficulties, emergencies.
C.S. Lewis
#80. Because I need it," I screamed. "I tried. I tried to stop once I got my license and be normal. But.. I needed it. My body craved it the more I denied that part of me. I need to be spanked. To be dominated. Because it's in those moments when I truly feel like myself.
Fia Black
#81. Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.
Roman Polanski
#82. It's like there's this knowledge hanging in the air that one person has more power than the other, and we're supposed to pretend everything is nice and normal and equal, but in reality, luck or chance has showered benefits on one person that the other person couldn't dream of.
Sara Benincasa
#84. I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
Rainey Qualley
#85. She sighs, and then gives me this look. It's new and I don't like it. Sort of, Two roads diverged in a wood, mine is normal, but I hope you can be happy for me even though you are Miss Havisham.
Anna Breslaw
#86. the thing no one wants to talk about is that the normal American woman is extremely weak when placed in closed quarters with a man she likes.
G.L. Lambert
#87. I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.
Sinead O'Connor
#88. Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
Janis Ian
#89. People who are normal (i.e., sane, sensible) don't try to open lines of communication with total strangers by writing them a series of disjointed, weird, cryptic messages.
Jon Ronson
#90. Karyos's people adopted an ingenious, if somewhat perplexing attitude that life was a circle. Not like Disney's circle of life thing, which was really just a nice way to say, "death is normal, children, so suck it up.
Gene Doucette
#91. It's rather good to pretend to be normal with someone.
Ana Franco
#92. The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.
Edward T. Welch
#93. The worst part of Christmas is that it ends. That practically the day after, everyone carries on as if nothing else ever happens. You're expected to go back to your normal life, eat normal food, not receive presents or celebrate or be jolly and wear stupid clothing, just because the moment's passed.
Matthew Crow
#94. What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.
Daniel Quinn
#95. Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.
Paul Stewart
#96. Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.
Paolo Giordano
#97. Carol, I thought you didn't liked playing with the minds of normal people."
"Yes, but the press don't count as normal."
"She's got you there," HARV added.
John Zakour
#98. Truth be told, loneliness had seeped into her bones with the passing of time until it had become her normal way of life.
Katherine McIntyre
#99. I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.
Tod Goldberg
