Usual Quotes
The saint, we are told,
once lived a life of sin -
nothing spectacular, of course,
just the usual things.
Nissim Ezekiel
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
I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
Louise Brooks
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
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
Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.
Dainin Katagiri
Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
Tacitus
Just charge me with the usual.
Bob Probert
This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual
Sebastian Coe
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
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
