Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are seeing an abnormal demand for gas right now, and that isn't so unusual after a big storm,

There are clouds on the horizon but, barring an abnormal event - say if Iran attacks Israel - those clouds should be manageable.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

As we got deeper in the event tonight, it was obvious this was an abnormal evening. No one will be docked points because the teams responded.

A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications beyond that are people don't know what they did.

For me he was fine, nothing abnormal in any way. The whole thing's a shock. You don't think about anything like this with colleagues. We know almost nothing about their background. The university is made up of all sorts of people, you don't presume anything.

D. H. Lawrence

You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

It's abnormal that all three should be active at the same time. That all three types of investors are willing to be active in the market shows that U.S. companies are very focused on efficiency.

They're like pacemakers. They're abnormal signals that they're trying to bring back to normal. Parkinson's disease leads to an abnormal firing pattern in a specific part of the brain and these brain pacemakers have been very effective in blocking these firing signals.

James Riley

It was fantastic. I don't think I've experienced that before. It's kind of an abnormal feeling for sure. I'm used to doing the dirty work and let other guys score the goals. It's definitely a weird feeling, but a good one nonetheless.

Patricia Highsmith

I should love to do a novel... about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

You're already starting with a person whose brain is clearly shown to be abnormal and now you're putting all these chemicals in there trying to rearrange things -- it's a daunting task.

There are some people who think we are abnormal because we're willing to blow so much money on a toy.

We've been in such an abnormal market we forgot what normal looked like. We are probably as close to being in a normal market as one can be.

We've seen the yuan go stronger even as the dollar had a big move up in its last trading session. That's abnormal and it's probably because the authorities are trying to use it for political effect.

The problem with that is you're exposing yourself to radiation from CAT scans every year and many times you will be finding things on the CAT scans that are abnormal but are not necessarily cancer, and they require additional follow-up.

What's been happening in markets with tight supply is you have people bidding over the asking price. That's what's accounted for this abnormal rate of price growth.

We firmly cannot agree to adhere to calls to continue with an abnormal policy forever,

There is a lot of merit in studying abnormal behaviors just in terms of figuring out ways to control them for the welfare of both companion animals and those bred for production agriculture. Another benefit is that if animal abnormal behavior is caused in the same way as in humans, then we may have a whole new range of model animals for studying human mental disorders.

Brett Butler

There's something very weird and abnormal about my particular quest to do stand-up; it's very isolating and self-important.

Daniel D. Palmer

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

Anais Nin

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

Sue Johanson

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

Gary Player

I was so brainwashed about how abnormal this was going to be with all the changes. It's not that abnormal. Even if the course is unbelievably tough, look at the beautiful trees and the flowers. It's a paradise.

James Agate

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

Jerome Bettis

Because of my size, I probably shouldn't be able to do some of the things I'm able to do. I just want to be remembered as a running back who was abnormal but had good feet, loved to play the game and did it right.

We have observed totally unexpected and abnormal increases in trading volumes and it is extremely regrettable that we had to take such action.

We intend to grow and we intend to take share. We're not seeing any slowdown or any abnormal situation.

Jerry Hall

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

I can also say that last spring when we were faced with replacing two outstanding and popular assistant coaches, that (senior associate athletics director) Nick Floyd and I took an abnormal interest in the hiring of the next assistant coach.

I don't see it as abnormal in any way; he's just on the private end of the spectrum. But I don't think that it influences his function.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

Sophie Hannah

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.