U Quotes
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“Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.”
“Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.”
“Usually, people who ask ‘do you know who I am?’ don't have a clue themselves”
Source: Pearls Before Swine
“Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.”
“Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.”
“Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.”
“Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.”
“Usually, Shakespeare gives me goose bumps. The guy knows everything. Like some ancient angel quill-ing out blueprints life. Hiding it in fiction. And usually I love the sound of the words, the way they dance on the page. Today, they fall flat. My attention bobbing in the cosmos. All free brain-space is marinating in gap month fizz. I chew my pen, candy-cane style. The million possibilities ahead make it hard to care about right now. I write my answers slowly, each letter carved in stone not ballpoint. I’m going to explore the world, find my passion, try everything! The fizz shoots up my spine and a smile sprouts.”
Source: The Jelly Bean Crisis
“Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.”
“Usually sociopaths will look down upon us for that very reason - that we're gullible. We're weak. One person told me that he thought he was the only honest person because he would admit that he didn't have a conscience and everybody else was clearly faking it.”
“Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
“Usually standing up to bullies is all it takes, but some tormentors will stop at nothing to intimidate their victims. Victims need the support of adults and friends to help to get the bullies to stop.”
Source: CU in My Dreams <3
“Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks.”
“Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do.”
“Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”
“Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.”
“Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.”
“Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.”
“Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.”
“Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you're going to be ok.”
“Usually the casting process is lengthy and humiliating, but in this instance, The Ghost Writer, it was just too easy. I was sitting in a rental car on an L.A. street and my cell phone rang, and it was Roman Polanski on the line. I couldn't really believe my luck. He said, "See you in Berlin." I sat staring at a palm tree, thinking how surreal that was.”
“Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'”
“Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.”
“Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.”
“Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.”
“Usually, the healer has lived in the same community with the person for decades; he knows a great deal about the person and what might be happening in his or her life. The Navajo view is a macro view, whereas Western medicine often takes a micro view. pg. 187”
Source: The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
“Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.”
“Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.”
“Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.”
“Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.”
“Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person”
“Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.”
“Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.”
Source: Walking on Water: A Novel
“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here it is the city singing. Listen, then, to this chorus of bell-towers - diffuse over the whole the murmur of half a million people - the eternal lament of the river - the endless sighing of the wind - the grave and distant quartet of the four forests placed upon the hills, in the distance, like immense organpipes - extinguish to a half light all in the central chime that would otherwise be too harsh or too shrill; and then say whetehr you know of anything in the world more rich, more joyous, more golden, more dazzling, than this tumult of bells and chimes - this furnace of music - these thousands of brazen voices, all singing together in flutes of stone three hundred feet high, than this city which is but one orchestra - this symphony which roars like a tempest.”
“Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.”
“Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.”
“Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.”
Source: River Marked
“Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.”
“Usually the person who rises within an organization has a good attitude. The promotions did not give that individual an outstanding attitude, but an outstanding attitude resulted in promotions.”
Source: The Complete 101 Collection
“Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not writing. Once the writing starts, it's too pleasurable to think of it as a difficulty.”
“Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.”
“Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.”
“Usually the secrets we keep deep down, ain't meant to hurt other people [...]. Not saying they won't, but not through intentions. Those deep secrets, we hide away because we're afraid what other people might think. How they might judge us, if they knew. And nobody's judgment we scared of more than the one we give out hearts to.”
Source: A Master of Djinn
“Usually the song is totally done. I'll do absolutely everything, backing vocals - everything - but in gibberish. A lot of times its based on the mumblings that I sing. Even though I sing in gibberish, it kind of makes sense.”
“Usually the term phobia refers to the psychological fear of the human mind from something that poses a threat. But when a species starts using the term fear against a biological portion of itself, there is nothing more demeaning than this.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.”
“Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.”
“Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.”
“Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.”