Norm Quotes

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.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

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.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

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

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

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.

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

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

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.

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

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. 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.

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.

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

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