Usual Quotes

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.

Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual It was a weak pass okay

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Your father," Luke said, "what did he say to you when you saw him? What did he promise you?" "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.

Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

CBS News finally received anthrax in the mail. As usual, we're number three.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)