Usually Quotes

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

Usually my ideas are small.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.