Usually Quotes
- Page 3I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
Bill Veeck
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
Richard Russo
I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.
Gina Gershon
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers
I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.
Helen Hunt
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.
Roy Lichtenstein
The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
Temple Grandin
I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.
Donald Fagen
If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.
Suzanne Fields
I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
Gus Van Sant
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.
Anna Torv
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.
Colin Firth
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.
Don Henley
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.
Naima Adedapo
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.
Eric Liu
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
Harrison Birtwistle
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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.
Craig Ferguson
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.
Jeremy Brett
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
Dennis Weaver
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.
Lee Iacocca