Usual Quotes

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.

What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.

All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Consequences of acting in Donald Trump's usual egocentric, "I make the rules," way can be quite dangerous for all of us.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.

Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.

Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

What’s going on?” he demanded. “The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.

I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that’s all Percy had.

There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding at an accelerating pace.

I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

The unusual wins out over the usual.

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.