Usually Quotes

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.