Top 100 Usually Quotes
#1. Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
Walter Savage Landor
#2. Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.
Walker Evans
#3. I'll exercise in spurts, usually inspired by a dress that I have to fit into. But once that gown is squeezed into, if I continue to exercise, I get sick or I pull my back. For some reason my body literally rejects exercise.
Debra Messing
#4. Usually, people in the Islamic world set aside one-third or one-fourth of their wealth for endowment, and that will be effective only after their death. But in my case, I decided to implement this decision in my lifetime itself.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#5. I think I forget every time - you give birth, and you want your stomach to be flat again. It does take a lot of work, but I usually start slowly by going on walks with the baby.
Kourtney Kardashian
#6. Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!
Paula Deen
#7. Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.
Eric Drooker
#8. I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.
Sara Bareilles
#9. Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.
David Hewson
#10. I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#11. If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.
August Bebel
#12. Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
Tahir Shah
#13. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.
Ally Condie
#14. Bottlenecks are usually at the tops of bottles.
Ed Bliss
#15. Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
Linus Torvalds
#16. Anger usually only serves us, and even then, only very fleetingly.
Sam Owen
#17. Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be,
Lee Kuan Yew
#18. The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.
Karen Joy Fowler
#19. He's usually the confident intellect, but every once in a while when he's around me, he turns into this clumsy fool. It makes me smile to think that I can make him as flustered as he seems to make me.
Kimberly Lauren
#20. It is tricky because I do wear a lot of vintage on the red carpet, and usually when I'm getting ready, I'll say, 'We need to make sure that I don't look like I'm in a Scorsese film today.' Sometimes I do something a little bit more modern with my hair. You have to mix it up.
Christina Hendricks
#21. If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon Musk
#22. Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.
Bryant McGill
#23. People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so
Danai Gurira
#24. The black dress of the average witch was usually only theoretically black. In reality, it was often rather dusty, and quite possibly patched in the vicinity of the knees and somewhat ragged at the hem and, of course, very nearly worn through by frequent washings. It was what it was: working clothes.
Terry Pratchett
#25. Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.
Dan Pearce
#26. The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
Josh Waitzkin
#27. The FBI had been a man's world - usually men of Irish or Italian heritage schooled by Jesuits and raised in a closed culture of police and priests.
Tim Weiner
#28. I've always tried to walk a line between being incisive and acerbic, but not mean. Sometimes I'm going to tip over the line a little bit, but that's usually a line I try not to cross.
Mark Leibovich
#29. One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
Lynn Fontanne
#30. God usually ignored us when asked for something, but he invariably granted what we feared.
Magda Szabo
#31. Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.
John Templeton
#32. After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.
Tony Lema
#33. Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.
Theodore Roosevelt
#34. Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.
Jenny Mollen
#35. I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.
Mose Allison
#36. Friendship is like that - bad things happen, and they're usually at the worst time. A real friend shows up.
H.M. Ward
#37. Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."
Jack Canfield
#38. Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.
Clare B. Dunkle
#39. He'd gone too far. He didn't usually talk to women so frankly. Not with them both fully clothed anyway.
Amy Andrews
#40. I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
Sondre Lerche
#41. Of course flattery seldom works with discerning people. It is shallow, selfish and insincere. It ought to fail and it usually does. True, some people are so hungry, so thirsty, for appreciation that they will swallow anything, just as a starving man will eat grass and fishworms.
Dale Carnegie
#42. I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.
Dan Bejar
#43. Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.
Cassandra Clare
#44. The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.
Thomas Steinbeck
#45. Religions do make claims about the universe
the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard Dawkins
#46. There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.
Aaron Zigman
#47. Usually, destructive pleasure-seeking behavior arises as an outburst of pent-up desire, and not as the expression of authentic desire.
Charles Eisenstein
#48. The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
Haruki Murakami
#49. I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.
Vinnie Jones
#50. Your "everybody" probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody - to which they refer as the "generalized other" - is usually a collection of about five or six people.
Margie Warrell
#51. If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.
Bernard Arnault
#52. First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.
Robert Kiyosaki
#54. I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.
Todd Barry
#55. A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
Henry Ford
#56. From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.
Agatha Christie
#57. Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things.
P.C. Cast
#58. You know, usually the people who smile the most and laugh the loudest are the ones who ... suffer the most,
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#59. Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.
American Psychiatric Association
#60. I usually eat anything I want. I'm not a big junk food guy, really.
Andre Reed
#61. I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.
Billy Campbell
#62. I'm not usually this emotional," I say. He shrugs. "All women say that. It usually precedes an episode of batshit craziness.
Tammy Falkner
#64. As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.
Eric Wilson
#65. Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.
Arjuna Ardagh
#66. Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.
David Walker
#67. Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
Charles Caleb Colton
#68. I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.
Kevin Conroy
#69. When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
Casey Affleck
#70. I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!
Amanda Righetti
#71. My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.
Sophie Hannah
#72. They're called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price.
Karen Marie Moning
#73. It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
Ellie Goulding
#74. The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.
Roland Barthes
#75. History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
Idries Shah
#76. We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.
Charles James
#77. A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
Seth Godin
#78. It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.
Chapman Cohen
#79. Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
George Eliot
#80. I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.
Jeff Tweedy
#81. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.
Fiona Helmsley
#82. She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes it
harder.
- Anita
Nilesh Sakpal
#83. Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.
Frederick Lenz
#84. When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.
Stephen Covey
#85. Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.
Amy Seimetz
#86. Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests.
Darrell Calkins
#87. Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.
Terry Teachout
#88. Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee
#89. I have a free wheeling mind with dodgy brakes. Once I start going downhill I find it hard to stop and usually end up going over the handlebars.
Gillibran Brown
#90. When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
Mickey Mantle
#91. One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to 'Oh fuck.'
Charles Stross
#93. We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
Richard Rohr
#94. Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!
Jeaniene Frost
#95. But now suddenly it occurs to me that by far the main protagonist of twentieth-century literature must be the chattering mind, which usually means the mind that can't make up its mind, the mind postponing action in indecision and, if we're lucky, poetry.
Tim Parks
#96. People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is a symptom of an underlying problem with a relationship posture.
Roberta M. Gilbert
#97. Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.
Mona Simpson
#98. I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.
Tommy Wiseau
#99. There are only a few things worse than having to face up to the fact that the predicaments one finds oneself in are usually the results of one's own foolish actions.
Jean Ferris
#100. When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.
Mike Krieger
