Top 100 You Usually Quotes
#1. I'm not big on awareness about what's going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts.
Alice Eve
#2. When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.
Sue Sanders
#3. I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
Owen Wilson
#4. Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.
Michelle Obama
#5. What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt.
Mr. Krabs
#6. Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.
John Wells
#7. If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
Adrian Lyne
#8. If you wanted me to take a shower, you should have payed me ten bucks like you usually do!
James Patterson
#9. He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain
Rick Riordan
#10. I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.
Stuart Appleby
#11. A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
M.J. Rose
#12. Nick jabbed him in the arm with his fork. "What's up with you? Usually you don't shut up about my crap cooking."
"Maybe I don't want to hurt your feelings."
Chris snorted, finally looking up from the plate. "That'll be the day.
Brigid Kemmerer
#14. You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.
Leon Uris
#15. Well." Vivien smiled, swinging her legs. "At least when Iain starts yelling, his accent gets thicker, so you usually can't understand a word he's ... No, don't pull that one," she stopped me suddenly. "That one I do recognize. It's some sort of a daisy, or something.
Susanna Kearsley
#16. In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
Dan Dailey
#17. I don't know how you usually treat the women you fuck, but you cannot just hurt me and expect me to come running whenever you need your dick sucked. Find another fucktoy.
Anne Malcom
#18. Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
Wm. Paul Young
#19. The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
Etgar Keret
#20. In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.
Takashi Miike
#21. When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.
Susan Sarandon
#22. A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover, and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do not confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you. Usually.
Carrie Jones
#23. Be careful, though."
"Aren't I always?"
"No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.
Veronica Roth
#24. Sage, aren't you guys supposed to have uniforms? This looks like what you usually wear.
Richelle Mead
#25. How did you not know they broke up? You usually monitor his social media like he's al-Qaeda and you're the CIA.
Heather Cocks
#26. Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
James Patterson
#27. In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.
Rudy Giuliani
#28. Yes, but you usually aren't ...
Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech
Deanna Raybourn
#29. When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.
Dave Grohl
#30. In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.
Nick Zano
#31. You usually can't go wrong if you state the obvious.
Glenn Andrews
#32. You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.
Keith Richards
#33. To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.
Phyllis Diller
#34. Filming movies and TV are vastly different. Film is more of slower pace. You usually have more time to develop characters, and it sometimes takes up to 3 months to film one movie. Sometimes you'll spend half the day filming one scene. TV moves much faster. It takes about 10 days to film an episode.
Chad Lindberg
#35. They have the impression that between launches, we pretty much sit around in a waiting room in Houston trying to catch our breath before the next liftoff. Since you usually only hear about
Chris Hadfield
#36. It's an odd thing to be sad about someone in death that you never really cared for in life and a thing that chooses its own moment to sneak up on you - usually
Mark Lawrence
#37. You basically go in animation and it's all in the imagination. There aren't even pictures to look at. You usually go in there and work with whoever the director is to create this voice and this character.
John Noble
#38. People who pressure you usually deserve a "no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a "yes".
Alan Cohen
#39. You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.
Dale Murphy
#40. You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.
Max Landis
#41. If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.
Jim DeMint
#42. There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
Ann Brashares
#43. I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.
Ice-T
#44. When you set out to create a new product, you usually do not start by trying to think of something completely new. You think of a product or concept that is already 'normal' to the world and then try to make it better. You make it Super Normal.
Dave Morin
#45. I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
Alan Alda
#46. As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
Molly Parker
#47. Unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.
Anne Sexton
#48. My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.
Nick Hanauer
#49. In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
Gavin Hood
#50. Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?
He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise.
Janny Wurts
#51. Jack, get a grip of yourself.'
I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.
Robert Rankin
#52. When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
Brian De Palma
#53. I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.
Susanne Bier
#54. If you were endorsed by Apter, you were something special, and you usually wound up somewhere in the magazines. He was the right guy to know.
Bill Apter
#55. With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.
Stephen Graham Jones
#56. I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.
Rob Zombie
#57. I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.
Harriet Evans
#58. I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.
Vince Vaughn
#59. I like the idea of a TV show. You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot of characters. You don't need your three-action set pieces that you usually need for movies.
Louis Leterrier
#60. That which does not kill you usually circles around and tries again.
Dana Gould
#61. What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do
James Patterson
#62. You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead.
What sort of dead do you usually date?
Christine Warren
#63. I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.
Bart Cummings
#64. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
Tiki Barber
#65. In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.
Ma Huateng
#66. You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.
James M. Cain
#67. When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.
Jim Rohn
#68. Well, how do you usually meet women?" "They have a way of suddenly appearing. Like the birds in that song." She had to think about that for a minute. "You mean 'Close to You' by the Carpenters?
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#69. When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.
Steve Krug
#70. For my father, being kind was natural ... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
David Copperfield
#71. My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.
Elvis Costello
#72. I said alone!"
He nodded in agreement. "Aye, you usually say that, and I still stay. It's our way.
Kresley Cole
#73. When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.
Jane Harman
#74. Flowers, champagne, caviar. Do you usually come so well equipped when you break and enter?"
"Only when I want to apologize and throw myself on the mercy of a beautiful woman.
Nora Roberts
#75. You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
Carly Simon
#76. I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.
Dan Bejar
#77. Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.
Sean Hayes
#78. This film [ Into the Forest], it was special for that reason, because as an actress, you usually don't get to work with other actresses because you are usually up for the same roles, and you don't get to hang out that much.
Evan Rachel Wood
#79. Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
Tom Landry
#80. When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
Dustin Clare
#81. If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.
Rene Auberjonois
#82. In 1961 you usually didn't hear the word shit from teachers, even if they had a mouthful. But
Stephen King
#83. When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack
#84. You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.
Alex Katz
#85. Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
Barbara Walters
#86. Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.
Rebecca Stead
#87. But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.
Megan Hart
#88. We'd also left lots of time unscheduled - the long stretches of hours we'd spend at the beach or walking around or just hanging out with no plan beyond maybe getting fountain Diet Cokes. It was Sloane - you usually didn't need more than that to have the best Wednesday of your life.
Morgan Matson
#89. It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.
Bill Drummond
#90. Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.
John Flanagan
#91. Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#92. You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
Nancy Kress
#93. When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.
McKayla Maroney
#94. I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
Will Patton
#95. I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.
Alec Baldwin
#96. A mystery is solved with a story. The story starts with a clue, but the trouble is that you usually have no idea what the clue is, even if you think you know.
Lemony Snicket
#97. When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.
Rob Zombie
#98. You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
Craig Bruce
#99. You usually can't just tell people to do what you want and have them do it.
Jennifer Greene
#100. Joe: We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave 'em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe: That's when I was a saxophone player. Now I'm a millionaire.
Tony Curtis
