“Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.” ThinkingWholeNormalActresses Author:Alexandra Roach
“I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being.” WellsWholeFeltExerciseNormalStuckWell BeingPregnancyStomachWorkoutMinus Author:Keri Russell
“In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.” IfsWorldNeedsPersonsWholeHomeCertainPayCitiesMillionsNew YorkRight NowNormalDollarsAverageLos AngelesMore MoneyMillion DollarsIowaStarters Author:Karrine Steffans
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?” PeopleIfsYearsWholeMomentsLightHappensLawAcceptingHellTheoryTenNormalConceptsThings HappenIllegalThat MomentJailTexasVietnamMarijuanaJointsRule Of LawProhibitionLight UpBreaking The Law Author:Orson Welles
“I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.” YearsWholeFunFireNormalYeahSevenThings To DoBurnedSeven YearsBackyardsNormal ThingsJust For Fun Author:Emraan Hashmi
“If prosperity means God wants us to be blessed and healthy and have good relationships then yes, I'm a prosperity teacher. But if it's about money, no, I never preach about money. I probably stay away from it more than normal because televangelists get a bad name. People put me in that category because I do believe that God does want us to be happy, healthy, and whole.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMeanDoeWholeNamesTeacherHealthyNormalBlessedProsperityCategoriesWant UGood RelationshipBeing Blessed Author:Joel Osteen
“The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.” IdeasWholeTalkingLaughingComedyStageNormalStrangerExhibitionist Author:Jim Gaffigan
“What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.” WayWholeFeelingsSeemsCoursesMemoriesInterestingObjectsShapesNormalComplexesEverydayImpressionRepresentationEveryday LifeOur MemoriesComplex Systems Author:Jean Dubuffet
“How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.” IfsKnowsEnoughWholeTodayWaterPerfectImpossibleAirKeysFitExerciseNormalSurvivalFruitToleranceDo You KnowVegetablesGrainJunkProteinVitaminsMineralsSurvival Of The FittestImpurityFruits And VegetablesWhole GrainsVitamins And Minerals Author:Jack LaLanne
“It's not normal for me to feel jealous. I'm competitive with myself more than anything. And anyway, all of my friends in the business are bigger than me! Most of them are musicians, and I think music takes them to a whole new level. For me, I'm going to try out music, but it will be more fun than anything else. I'm really trying my hardest to become a well-respected actress. All I really want to do is movie after movie after movie. I love acting, and I want to create that so I can be around for a long time.” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingWellsLongI CanWholeFunLevelsActingNormalMusicianLong TimeMy FriendsBiggerActressesHardestJealousTrying My Hardest Author:Selena Gomez
“And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.” WorldPersonsWholeFilmLeftStarsFameNormalContrastLeft AloneFilm Stars Book:A Mouse is Born Source: A Mouse is Born
“I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWholeCharacterLinesNormalBiggerWhole LifeStuckLifestyleFascinatedCrossingsGangstersNormal LifeBigger Than LifeCrossing The Line Author:Denzel Washington
“Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.” MenTwoWholeEarthWalksDealsBehaviorNormalMethodPatternsLegsBiologyExplainingMammalsHistory Of Life Author:Elaine Morgan
“I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.” PlayWholePainCareersMinesNormalAthleteKnees Author:Willie McCovey
“The President of the United States has super star status. He's not a normal person, because he's protected like no other person in the world and if this man's life is in danger, the whole world is kind of in peril in a way, because the leader of the free world could fall into the hands of terrorists.” IfsMenWorldWayKindPersonsStatesWholeHandsLife IsFallStarsPresidentUnitedLeaderUnited StatesDangerNormalTerroristWhole WorldProtectedPerilFree WorldSuper Star Author:Roland Emmerich
“If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” PeopleIfsFeelsIdeasRealWholeHomeStuffSeeingNormalSittingTradeBoxesBoringToysNew ThingsNew IdeasBoring Life Author:Alex Day
“The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.” WorldWayWholeAcceptingNormalWhole WorldStressedWay To Live Author:Eckhart Tolle
“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.” PeopleIfsDifferentWholeLightLosesWonderCircumstancesNormalDoctorsPerfectly NormalDifferent MeaningsApproaching Death Author:Joan Didion
“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.” PeopleKnowsTryingStillsWholeCareKidsTurnsGrowsProcessParentEffortGrowing UpGrewHealthySkillsNormalGrew UpToleranceDespiteAwfulHelpfulStrongestImperfectPsychotic Author:Frank Pittman
“If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.” IfsWholeFilmQuietNormalRhythmGet BackNervesTypicalSteelNormal LifeQuiet Life Author:Geraldine Chaplin
“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.” PeopleIfsWayLittlesIdeasSometimesWholeCharacterUseInterestingCommonPaintingNormalNegativeIntentionMonstersReactionsSympatheticMonstrous Author:Chris Mars
“Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.” IfsWorldTryingHas BeensWholeChristianSinPositionNormalPopulationDareLustDestroyedSettlingRescueSettling DownPerishing Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“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
“I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.” LifeFeelsI CanWholeStuffHoursWalksBehindsCrazyFineNormalLegsMessUnpredictableSymptomsKickingTumors Author:Lauryn Hill
“I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.” PeopleKnowsWantKindWholeNormalTendenciesRelateBe KindLiving My LifePedestal Author:Assata Shakur
“we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.” ImportantEnoughWholeMightFightingInterestDifferencesSituationPositionReturnNormalRegardPreparedWestRussiaCostumesUkraineDressed UpIt Is What It IsNational Interests Author:Marvin Kalb
“It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly.” WantFeelsTryingWholeFeelingsHomeWantedStarsWatchesNormalDistance Author:Evanna Lynch
“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
“The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.” PeopleThinkingPlayWholeHomeHoursBrotherHugeNormalMachinesYeahRingsBellsYellingBumperPinballYelling And Screaming Author:Hulk Hogan
“The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.” PeopleThinkingMayStillsEndsWholeYoungRealizingWalksTakenHeardTerribleNormalHappeningsSickTrainDrivenGasTornOld PeopleTruckChamberTerrible ThingsNormal LifeAuschwitzVery CleverGas Chambers Author:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
“I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion.” PeopleThinkingFeelsRealWholeProblemHappensIndustrySceneNormalGunReal LifeObsessedInvasionDominanceRobberyBank Robbery Author:Gaspar Noe
“That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.” IfsWholeWould BeClassMiddleNormalContraryMiddle Class Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever wanted was my dad to pat me on the top of the head and go, Who's a good boy ? Who's a good boy? But, instead, all he ever did was wipe peanut butter on the end of my nose and laugh while I tried to lick it off.” PeopleWantEndsWholeWantedCommonBoysLaughingAcceptanceDadNormalMy DadAcceptedWhole LifeNosesWipePeanutsScrewed UpPeanut ButterGood Boy Author:Christopher Titus
“My whole life has been traveling, so it just seems normal to me, ... I'm able to leave on a bus with eight or nine guys, and I feel really comfortable with it. I've always done it. It's heaps of fun. They're all people I get along with really well. They're all my family, my best friends.” PeopleFeelsWellsHas BeensDoneWholeSeemsAbleGuyFunNormalComfortableMy FamilyEightWhole LifeNineBusMy Best Friend Author:Kasey Chambers
“My run is so weird. That's what I'm most nervous about in this whole ordeal. I'm most nervous about everybody making fun of the way I run. I do, like, karate hands. Instead of running with my hands closed together like a normal person. It's like I'm trying to be aerodynamic or something, so my hands are straight like razors. Karate hands.” WayTryingPersonsWholeHandsRunningTogetherFunNormalNervousKarateRazorsOrdeals Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“I was never presented with the details as far as the collective bargaining system is Greece. I am in favor of a normal system without giving the labour minister the right to extend the results to extend the result of the collective bargaining to the whole of the real economy. The government has to make sure that the results will not harm the situation of small and medium enterprises.” GivingRealWholeGovernmentResultsSituationEconomyNormalDetailsHarmFavorsMediumsMinistersEnterpriseLabourCollectivesGreeceBargainingCollective Bargaining Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.” PeopleIfsYearsTwoWarStatesWholeJobsHalfTalkingCasesSupportNormalArmyInstitutionsReactionsTwo YearsSyriaSectsDisintegration Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the city's turbulent history is. The negative things I write about are considered normal here.” WritingWholeCitiesNormalNegativeCriticalDespiteMonumentDelhi Author:Karan Mahajan
“All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.” PeopleTryingWholeShowsDreamNormalJust BeingOur Dreams Author:Carrie Underwood
“When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.” PeopleWholeHappensLawAcceptingNormalBreaking The Law Author:Orson Welles
“Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.” PeopleWorldChildrenBookEndsSometimesWholeDiesOur LivesNormalPagesWhole LifeNovelistsThank U Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.” TwoWholeFeltHalfWeekOne DayTenNormalSundayWeekendSaturdayDays OffSaturday And Sunday Author:Joshua Ferris
“She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone." "And you know that how?" Sam asks. I'm trying really hard to be honest, but telling the whole thing to Sam seems beyond me. Still, the fragments sound ridiculous on their own. "She said so. In the park." He rolls his eyes. "Because the two of you were so friendly." "I guess she mistook me for someone else." I sound so much like Philip that it scares me. I can hear the menace in my tone. "Who?" Sam asks, not flinching. I force my voice back to normal. "Uh, the person who killed him.” KnowsTryingPersonsSaidStillsI CanTwoHardWholeSeemsEyeAsksForceSoundVoiceHonestNormalRidiculousBeing HonestToneHis EyesParksFriendlyScareFragmentsMenacePhilipTrying Really Hard Author:Holly Black
“[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I was pretty sure that whatever was buzzing against my thigh was not normal. For one thing, it was ringing. Ben dragged his mouth away from mine and mumbled a curse that was a little shocking and kind of hot. "Ignore it," he said. That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.” IfsWorldWantKindLittlesSaidWholeHomeRunningFeltEasyOne ThingMinesKissingNormalMouthsThirdsHotPhonesConnectedWhole WorldCellsCurseTonightShockingCell PhoneThighsHome RunWirelessHens Author:Rosemary Clement-Moore
“It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.” IfsThinkingWantLittlesWholeSidesNormalMachinesDefeatTinyBridgesPoundsPlatesScrewsHammersOutrageousSyndromesChisels Author:Robert M. Pirsig