Norm Quotes

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.