Usually Quotes

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I don't usually read reviews.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.