Usually Quotes
4349 quotes by 3077 authors
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Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl…
— Erich Fromm
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How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.
— Charles Bukowski
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Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually…
— Thom Yorke
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When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.
— Thom Yorke
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
— Tennessee Williams
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
— James Patterson
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I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
— John Grisham
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It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is…
— Mikhail Tal
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Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and…
— Joy Harjo
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When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or…
— George Foreman
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I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to…
— Malcolm X
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The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes…
— George Soros
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Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.
— Napoleon Hill
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A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.
— Dale Carnegie
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