Usual Quotes

623 Usual quotes by 519 unique authors

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. — Ella Maillart
The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we… — Al Gore
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton… — Alan Watts
Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd… — Albert Ellis
People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above. — Anne Roiphe
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of… — Stephen Jay Gould
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple. — Stephen Jay Gould
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is… — Murray Gell-Mann
Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the… — Sebastian Pinera
I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the… — Anne-Marie Duff
I started off from a very early age listening to music - all the usual cheesy stuff that little kids like. — Iwan Rheon
In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that… — Stieg Larsson
I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to… — Alice Temperley
Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the… — Yotam Ottolenghi
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and… — Aimee Bender
For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying… — John Ridley
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by… — Alex Shoumatoff
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek… — Jacob Rothschild
Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of… — Noreena Hertz
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced… — Walter Kirn
The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will… — Seth Shostak
The beauty of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted who works harder than usual can rise; the burden of a free society… — Ben Shapiro
Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and… — Barton Gellman
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style. — Martha Beck
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you. — Alexander Cockburn

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