Normal Quotes

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. (H. L. Mencken)
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. View quote
Alfred Adler
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. View quote
Anton Chekhov
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. View quote
Albert Camus
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. View quote
John Forbes Nash
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts. View quote
Angelina Jolie
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. (Helena Bonham Carter)
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. View quote
John Rawls
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from. View quote
Jodie Foster
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything. View quote
Steve Wozniak
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. View quote
Ellen Goodman
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. (Ulrich Beck)
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. View quote
Bill Cosby
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. View quote
Winona Ryder
Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane. View quote
Germaine Greer