#abnormal

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#awkward #family #friends #insane #mental-issues

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#bit #criticism #falter #going #good

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#head #pretty #size #though

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. ↗

— Louise Brown

#i #me #peculiar #something #thought

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!' ↗

— Brian Eno

#am #crazy #how #i #i am

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. ↗

— George Takei

#barbed #barbed wire #became #camp #guard

Living is abnormal. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#living

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#always #because #behind #characters #hides

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. ↗

— William Osler

#alike #behave #bodies #conditions #disease

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bierce #detested #independant #thought #death