Usually Quotes

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices.

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.