Usual Quotes · Page 5

When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

— Gabe Kaplan

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

— Paul Watson

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

— Samuel Barber

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

— Audrey Niffenegger

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

— Helen Rowland

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

— Paul Krugman

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)…

— Calvin Trillin

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't…

— Ernie Pyle

There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other.…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this…

— Anonymous

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started…

— Terry Pratchett

There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but…

— Howard Rheingold

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of…

— Terence McKenna

“When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The beauty of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted who works harder than usual can rise; the burden of…

— Ben Shapiro

Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.…

— Anonymous

It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love.…

— Joan Bauer

And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it…

— Terry Pratchett

I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the…

— Jacques Rivette

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask…

— John Locke

If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical…

— Robert Linssen

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

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on…

— Richard Rorty

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

— Stephenie Meyer

“I didn't know what to do, and as usual, when I didn't know what to do, I did nothing.”

— Janet Skeslien Charles

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

— Dodie Smith

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

— Lawrence Davidson

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like…

— Holly Black

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

— Sammy Hagar

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

— Bela Lugosi

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

— Tom Bergeron

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

— George Carlin

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

— Robin McKinley

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

— Glenn Reynolds

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

— John Stuart Mill

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

— Edward St Aubyn

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

— Frank McCourt