Ellen Glasgow Quotes

I see flaws as a kind of beauty.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

a normal human being ... does not exist.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

I'm pretty normal.

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

I am normal. In fact, I think I might be more normal than anyone else.

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

No one was normal, not really.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

Imperfections create character.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Forget normal.” He grinned. “We’re going to be extraordinary.