Usually Quotes

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.