Usual Quotes

• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

  Jef Raskin

  Funny, Time, Humor

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

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• Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Appreciation, Mistake

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Learning, Letters

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

  Ann Brashares

  Self, Routine, Lame

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• Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Christian Inspirational, Achievement

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• I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Ubiquity, Perception, Ordinary

  "Michael Craig-Martin: Up close and impersonal". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2011.

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• That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

  Leo Kottke

  Jobs, Records, Way

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• Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

  Raymond Queneau

  Dream, Work, Men

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• Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

  Howard Zinn

  Memorial Day, Memories, Betrayal

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.331, Seven Stories Press

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• I'll probably be wearing something fun and sexy as usual, but I can't say it will be the 'Catsuit.'

  Serena Williams

  Sexy, Fun, I Can

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• Because I work with entrepreneurs who own businesses, I have found Doug Tatum's No Man's Land to be a really helpful body of working knowledge. It's very applicable to most businesses that have the usual problems of growing businesses - managing people, capital, markets, etc.

  Lewis Schiff

  Men, Land, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As usual, no one's ever around when you need them.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Needs

  "How to kill a rock star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

  Holly Black

  Different, Looks, Slugs

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• Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601

  Richelle Mead

  Dresses, Stories, Fabric

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• How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.

  Betty Smith

  Thinking, Salary, Littles

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• When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Encyclopedia Britannica, Favourite, Articles

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• If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere - from Quebec, Israel, Poland, and Belgium. It's not the usual French, German, etc. This category is opening up to socially engaged and political films. I think we're going to see a cross over to the main categories also. It's part of this global environment now and I'm grateful that the Academy is having this window on world cinema.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Grateful, Thinking, Israel

  Source: collider.com

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• I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

  Henri Coanda

  Moving, Should Have, Land

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• I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Today, Praying, More Time

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• To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Choices, Vision

  Thomas Merton (1980). “The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton”, p.280, New Directions Publishing

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• Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.

  Arthur Eddington

  Ocean, Sea, Two

  "The Philosophy of Physical Science". Book by Arthur Eddington, 1938.

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• War is the usual condition of Europe.

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Europe, Conditions

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