Usual Quotes

623 quotes by 528 authors

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry… — Russell Baker
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening… — John Boehner
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know… — Anthony Bourdain
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of… — Dave Brubeck
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived… — James Buchan
Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures… — Helena Bonham Carter
There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like… — Nick Cave
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. — Georges Clemenceau
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will… — Thomas Jefferson
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. — Shunryu Suzuki
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand. — Peter Kropotkin
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights -… — Terence McKenna
We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and… — Geronimo
Just charge me with the usual. — Bob Probert
In Chicago, having crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and… — Bob Probert
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one… — Mark Twain
The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual! — Winston Churchill

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