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4349 Usually quotes by 2960 unique authors
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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years…
— Dave Barry
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In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant…
— Marshall McLuhan
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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men…
— Charles Dickens
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When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that…
— Dalai Lama
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Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
— John Dryden
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Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
— Stephen Levine
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When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting…
— Linda Ellerbee
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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
— James Dean
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One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this…
— Nora Ephron
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint…
— Henri Matisse
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Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind,…
— Lin Yutang
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Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may…
— Ansel Adams
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Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.
— Jean Racine
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I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look…
— David Hockney
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I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
— Robert Motherwell
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Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a…
— Robert Motherwell
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You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.
— Barack Obama
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as…
— Asa Gray
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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence…
— E. O. Wilson
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The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory…
— Edith Schaeffer
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One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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