Usually Quotes

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.

I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.