Norm Quotes

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

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.

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.

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

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

Using the word weird implies that there is a 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.