Usually Quotes

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.