“My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.” StatesUnitedDealsNumbersUnited StatesSpecialHavensReturnTaxesNormalComputerPaidTax Returns Author:Bill Gates
“I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindIdeasSometimesHurtHavensNormalTiredHurt MeWrong Ideas Author:Craig Nicholls
“Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.” BelieveEndsSituationHavensNormalProtagonists Author:Paul Schrader
“I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, 'You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.'” IfsThinkingKnowsHeartCareersHavensTomorrowBlessingNormalOkayResponsePianoPositive Response Author:Mark Ruffalo
“We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.” ThinkingEarthHavensNormalDown To Earth Author:Ashley Olsen
“Normal people terrify me, because they haven't had enough problems in their life to know how to handle problems when they come up. Something little happens and they snap. But being from a dysfunctional family means nothing rattles me. Hey once you've driven a drunken father to moms' parole hearing, what else is there?” PeopleKnowsMeanLittlesEnoughProblemHappensFatherKnow HowHavensMomNormalCome UpHearingDrivenHandleHeySnapsHad EnoughParole Author:Christopher Titus
“I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular as the "Harry" books, but I can live with that thought quite easily. By the time I stop writing about Harry, I will have lived with him for 13 years, and I know it's going to feel like a bereavement. So I'll probably take some time off to grieve, and then on with the next book!” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingYearsI CanBookNextDoubtWrittenHavensNormalGrievingBereavementTime Off Author:J. K. Rowling
“I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's so, it would mean that the speakers of this language aren't making use of a capacity that they surely have, a normal situation; plenty of people throughout history would drown if they fall into water.” PeopleIfsMeanUseFallLanguageWaterNumbersSituationHavensNormalCapacityClaimsSentencesPlentySpeakersFiniteRecursionFinite Number Author:Noam Chomsky
“So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.” IfsMindEnoughLastsGoalResultsWeekHavensFootballOne DayNormalSetting GoalsGood Football Author:Jose Mourinho
“Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.” KnowsAsksFatherMillionsKnow HowHavensPaintingHairNormalDollarsRaisedBoundariesAsk MeMillion DollarsStrandsPubic Hair Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.” IfsMindRealityCommonVisionHavensPeriodsNormalAvailableGuidesCommon SenseDataInterpretationMadmenDope Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.” StatesEnoughLastsCommonHavensDegreesNormalIndependentUniversityCommon SenseFrontiersSchooledPublic EducationUniversity DegreesSheltered Lives Author:Sarah Palin
“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.” IfsGivingWantedCoursesEvilRoomsCompanyHavensNormalTablesThroatAppetiteDiningDining Rooms Author:Gregory Maguire