“You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.” KnowsWorldYearsPersonsDifferentLastsAnswersFiveBalanceHolyNormalFindingsMaturityFive YearsSkipDifferent WorldsNormal LifeRight PersonLast Five YearsFinding The Right Person Author:Burt Ward
“Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.” WayTogetherJobsParentFiveNormalNineFamily LifeNormal Family Author:Georgia May Jagger
“There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.” JobsFiveOfficeNormalMusicianLifestyleNinePostsPost Office Author:Robin Thicke
“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsDoeShowsActorsStarsFiveFourCostNormalEatingHundredDollarsDinnerRestaurantsExpensiveFiftyHotelRelativeTicketsSeventiesBroadwaySpectators Author:Ferran Adria
“In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"” MenWayYearsWould BeAgeGuyRoomsFiveNormalTwentiesFortyTwenty FiveForty Years Old Author:Mindy Kaling
“Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.” YearsKindChildrenProblemAgeSchoolFiveTenNormalCapableAll KindsVaryVariablesNonverbalSchool WorkNeurological Disorders Author:Temple Grandin
“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsPersonsMadeTwoWholeFiveTeacherNormalSightDown AndUniversityContactWonderland Author:Margaret Atwood
“What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.” StillsBigsAgeJobsDealsFiveNormalRetirementSixtyBig DealRetirement Age Author:Keith Richards
“There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.” ShouldAgeBoysDoubtFiveDogHealthyNormalNo DoubtFiftyForty Author:Robert Benchley
“I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.” GivingI CanEnoughMightHoursFiveCarNormalSixGive MeSpeedDrivingMilesBecause I CanBuzzDriving On Author:Jenson Button
“To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.” YearsNamesChurchFiveNormalMiracleCatholicSaintFive YearsProceduresCatholic Church Author:Chris Matthews
“That being said, in my top five favorite movies, two of them are Alien and Aliens. I love to laugh, and I love to make people laugh. I love comedy, but I also love the darker things in life. I guess I'm an extremist. I'm an adrenaline junkie. Just cruising along at a normal capacity really doesn't do anything for me.” PeopleSaidTwoLaughingFiveComedyNormalCapacityAliensThings In LifeExtremistMaking People LaughAdrenalineJunkie Author:Angie Harmon
“According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.” PeopleIfsPersonsSeemsFiveFourNormalStatisticsDisturbed Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme
“Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.” FiveFeetNormalHeightTallTormentPerfectly Normal Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up on a bad day. If you're working fourteen hours on a set and you need to eat five protein bars, then you just do that. I keep it a regular and normal part of my life as [much as] I can.” IfsNeedsTryingI CanHoursFiveWeekHealthyNormalSixBeatsActiveBarsBad DayProteinFourteen Author:Rhea Seehorn
“I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy." And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.” YearsFirstsTwoIdeasCoursesEasyActingFivePeriodsNormalHotNo IdeaFive YearsUnemploymentUps & Downs Author:David Krumholtz
“That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world. Is that increasingly all of our elected officials are pulled from the same class. These aren't normal people. I don't want to say they're all terrible people, but at the same time, they're not like you and me. These are people who have sort of a nine to five working history.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantGovernmentClassIssuesFiveLike YouTerribleRight NowNormalWesternNineOfficialsWestern WorldElected Officials Author:Edward Snowden
“In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.” KnowsWorldI CanSpeakFiveSkillsNormalNineRelateSpiteVintageSpeaks French Author:Johnny Weir
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” WorldWayOrderBornNaturalCareersTechnologyFiveNormalOrdinaryExcitingCome UpReactionsRevolutionaryThirtyFifteenNatural Order Author:Douglas Adams
“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.” TwoFallLevelsFiveThousandNormalTwentiesTwenty FiveRestoringNormality Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.” WayFeelsHandsEyeAbleEarthPainUsedAsksProcessDifficultRealizingFiveOur LivesTroubleFeetGrewNormalHappeningsCapacityFingersFamiliarOddNew WaysCompositionEnigmaKernelDifficult QuestionsFive FingersFamiliar Places Author:Donald Miller
“I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?” ThinkingMenMeanImportantUseAgeAmericaGamesHoursFiveSawsWeekFrontsFlowerNormalNewsTwentiesAverageFolksScreensVideoThirtyReportsMasculinityTwenty Five Author:Joel Salatin