Quotes About Normalness

#1. Normalness leads to sadness.

Phil Lester

#2. Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity ... It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

Clifford Geertz

#3. I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.

Miranda July

#4. On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

H.L. Mencken

#5. I'm going to make love to you until you scream. Until you know you're mine. No man will ever touch you again. Only me. He stared through her soul with his hungry emerald eyes. I'll mark you so every man who sees you know who you belong to.

Gayle Donnelly

#6. good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters them.

Santideva

#7. When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

Evan Peters

#9. When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Heath Ledger

#10. Words are dangerous things.

Corra May Harris

#11. When one carries poison, thoughts of death are never far away.

John Speed

#12. I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.

Kiersten White

#13. I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Dee Dee Ramone

#14. I write because I can't imagine not writing.

Richard Price

#15. If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.

Natalie Goldberg

#16. Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

Brian Mulroney

#17. Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

Scott Simon

#18. My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach "normal" has brought me to ponder whether "normal" even exists, or if it is nothing more than delusional grandeur based in the sounds of those sweet sirens drawing my ship in all the wrong directions.

Dan Pearce