Quotes tagged ‘abnormal’

“Igor: Where are you going? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: To wash up. I've got to look normal. [his bowtie pops open] We've all of us got to behave normally.”

— Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Igor, Marty Feldman, imdb.com

“Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's? Igor: [pause] No. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby s…”

— Mel Brooks, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Gene Wilder, imdb.com

“This is not a normal family.”

— Matt Duffer, Joyce Byers, Winona Ryder, imdb.com

“Lila, believe me when I say this, I've never known a normal day in my entire life.”

— Edward Napier, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“What is normal, anyway? Right? Whose standard are we using? I feel normal. Normal enough. I mean, 60 years ago, we gave 'abnormal' people shock therapy, and now we hold parades with them.”

— Liz Tigelaar, imdb.com

“If you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing.”

— Michel Foucault, amazon.com

“The very fact that Vrangalova and others are seeking explanations for casual-sex behaviors suggests that our society views it as worthy of note—something aberrant, rather than ordinary. No one writes about why people feel the need to drink water or go to the bathroom, why eating dinner with friends…”

— Maria Konnikova, newyorker.com