Normal Quotes - Page 27

An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be immoral and unethical to deny the homosexuals their human rights. But it is also immoral to consider disorders as normal. None of these deviances are biological. They are acquired by fantasizing about them.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... 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.

The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.

I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.

In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.

I'm pretty normal looking.

We [with Marjane Satrapi] both have very strong personalities, but that's completely normal, because even if you're very well prepared, you never know when you shoot live action.

These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

I'm really just a normal person.

I'm just as normal as anybody else. I'm just probably in the same place as many people in their mid to late twenties are.