“I get bored really easily. I get bored with people really easily. I get bored with routine easily. I don’t like things that are average, or normal. I care if I have the best – in the world about that - just wanting that great light that everybody looks at and goes ‘Ahhh’. I feel like that’s what I’ve found in my partner.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsLooksLightCareFoundNormalAveragePartnersBoredRoutineI Care Author:Susan Downey
“That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.” PeopleTodayPoliticalValuesFoundAttitudeGrowingChildhoodNormalOur ChildrenPrioritiesDevelopingValue Of Life Author:Tom Segev
“One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.” MeanBigsEarthFoundStarsCareersComedyOne ThingSweetNormalProjectsOrdinaryComicHelpfulOur RelationshipIconsAnnaDown To Earth Author:Chris Pratt
“There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.” PeopleShouldStillsI CanPlayHelpingFoundGamesRiskConditionsKingsTerribleNormalAngryScaredTreatedCuriousUpsetLimbsCubaNormal LifeCubanCastroGood Experiences Author:Albert Belle
“I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.” PeopleWayMayFoundDifferencesNormalComfortingNormal Family Author:Andrew Solomon
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.” HumansWellsMayDoeHas BeensRealPoliticalSufferingFoundPoliticsVoiceExistenceStruggleNormalRelationAbsolutesVictimIllnessMental IllnessHopelessSymptomsNeuroticAbnormalHuman Voice Author:Aldous Huxley
“I've been a professional for I think 13, 14 years. It's not easy hitting balls every day and staying really motivated throughout the whole period. It's normal [that] you're going to have ups and downs. But I found my way again. And I love the sport. I love competing. I love battling. I love being out there and playing in front of crowds. This is what I've been doing since I was a child. There's nothing else that I want to do.” ThinkingWayWantYearsChildrenWholeFoundEasySportsLove IsFrontsPeriodsNormalBallsCrowdsMy WayStayingMotivatedHittingCompetingUps & Downs Author:Jelena Jankovic
“Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.” MenSelfHandsFoundStarsBrainGeniusDisciplineNormalAverageProductionsNonsenseApplicationSelf DisciplineSuccessors Book:Succeeding With What You Have Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.” MadeWarCountryMightFoundHonorNormalPercentElectionInstinctFollowingGhostMemoirStayingVietnamAccordVietnam WarMischiefCandidGeneva Author:Gore Vidal
“I have since talked to some of my girlfriends sexual assault and found out that they had their own experiences that they never shared at the time. It was never talked about it. And I think it's because of that normal response - you feel badly, you feel responsible, you feel guilty, you feel like you did something wrong, you feel ashamed.” ThinkingFeelsFoundLike YouNormalResponsibleResponseGuiltyGirlfriendAshamedAssaultMy GirlfriendSexual Assault Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.” KindHas BeensWantedMovingFoundNormalBuiltTownsHarmonyGermanyAppropriateVillageSouthernSocialistSettlementUtopianIndianaPennsylvaniaWelsh Author:Christine Jennings
“After my husband died more than a decade ago, my mother prayed that I would remarry so that I could have a "normal" life again. Many people assumed that it would be too difficult for me to carry on as a single mother and raise a child without a man at my side. As the years went by, I found that it was indeed possible and that, in fact, I had no desire to remarry.” PeopleMenYearsChildrenFactsWould BeMotherDesireFoundDifficultSidesHusbandNormalDiedRaisesDecadesMy HusbandNormal LifeSingle Mother Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.” PeopleWayTurnsFoundEasyFateFootballNormalSurvivedKicking Book:Straight Source: Straight
“Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.” NeedsHardDoneFoundAnimalColdNormalPlantClimateFleshSubstanceMeatOrganismsMaintainingTemperatureWork To Be DoneCold Climate Author:G. I. Gurdjieff