Usually Quotes

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

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.

I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud.

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of "The Lord of the Rings". From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.