Usual Quotes

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Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement. — Tacitus
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the… — Carl Sagan
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. — Mark Twain
...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore… — William James
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. — James A. Baldwin
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

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