Usual Quotes

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

"What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. I looked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth. "I'm trying to figure out what you are."

The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

As usual, no one's ever around when you need them.

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.

Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.

When I am outside at night by myself every person turns into a pedophile. So I tend to walk a little faster than usual and then I sprint.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

When Im not working... Im an actor! Im auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won't be disappointed and if they don't you'll be impressed.

The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.