After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy. — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
“Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I never really see entertainment as a noble pursuit necessarily, but people really want a sense of normalcy, even if it's being… — Sean Evans Copy Share Image
“My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought… — Amber D. Tran Copy Share Image
My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
“Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I think that all people that get to a certain level of their celebrity are brands. I accept that. I don't value… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
“I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
“Yeah. She'd manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She'd talked… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“I do not understand normalcy. You have to be out of your mind to think outside the box. You need to think… — Eniitan Akinola Copy Share Image
“It's like I am inside this ethereal sphere wherein exists no logic, no reasoning, no typicality, no explanations, no realism, no comparisons,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“My whole life I wanted to be normal. Everybody knows there's no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of… — Tori Spelling Copy Share Image
Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool. — Eric Shanteau Copy Share Image
It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy. — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
“As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter where you are, it… — Melina Kanakaredes Copy Share Image
“I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of… — J. Merridew Copy Share Image
No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
“I realize that nothing is really normal. All it takes to alter normalcy is a death or a birth. Or just some… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
Keep being yourself as well. Many times when life gets us down, all we desire for is some normalcy after tragedy. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
“Possibly the only way to maintain some sort of resemblance of normalcy was by thinking about insignificant things. That way, it didn’t… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
In some of my works I take away other elements of the world - normalcy, sex drive, sense of time, memory, a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up… — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps espousing views one doesn't actually hold is a core tenet of normiedom. In sum, the way of the normie is founded… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
“[T]he world needs us to be as flawed as we are. Everyone here needs to know that to get better. To know… — Tabitha Freeman Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image