Elizabeth Moon Quotes

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

The earth didn’t stop spinning. The moon didn’t fall into the pond. The people who live across the street are the same people, except that they’re married.

I go to the store. I go get my car fixed. I have friends. I have a life, but nobody needs to know about it. Because I'm just the same as anyone else.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

I'm one of those people that will walk into a bar, and if I wasn't a comic - because some people know who I am - I would just blend in.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks, I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project.

I don't think anyone's normal.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.