Usual Quotes
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The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.
Caetano Veloso -
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
Joanne Rowling
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I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
Louise Brooks -
We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I'd hate to be on the usual record company where you get an album out and you do a tour, and you do all the Odeon's and all the this that and the others. I couldn't just do that at all.
Ian Curtis Joy Division -
Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
Tacitus -
How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.
Betty Smith -
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
Alexandru C. Cuza -
The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.
Nissim Ezekiel
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And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)
J. D. Salinger -
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.
Dainin Katagiri -
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
Lois McMaster
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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Just charge me with the usual.
Bob Probert -
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.
Charles Baxter -
This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual
Sebastian Coe -
Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."
Vladimir Nabokov -
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
Virginia Woolf
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I'll probably be wearing something fun and sexy as usual, but I can't say it will be the 'Catsuit.'
Serena Williams -
The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.
Van Jones -
Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.
David Thornley