Usually Quotes

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.