Usual Quotes - Page 9

• In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Progress, Resources, Found

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.59, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Stupid, Past

  "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh". Book by Michael Chabon, 1988.

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• People do not want to be disillusioned by the new president [Barak Obama]. The liberals felt, finally, this is our time. Now they're worried. Now what they see is more business as usual. We all want to give him the benefit of the doubt, we know it's a tough job and he inherited a mess, but at the end of the day, is it really change we can believe in when there's no public options and Wall Street reform has no teeth in it? It really looks a lot like we just changed the color.

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Wall, Believe

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• ...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Memories, Silence, Energy

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.30, Anchor

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• I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It is full of beauty, romance and tradition, but also power, schemes and bribery. It's Italy in a nutshell, with all its incredible mixture of beauty and betrayal.

  Cosima Spender

  Betrayal, People, Romance

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Two, Gossip, Thirds

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.3484, e-artnow

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• When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.

  Gene Kelly

  Song, Luxury, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.

  Richard Siken

  Sleep, Romantic Love, Want

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

  Margaret Mitchell

  Women, Brain, Masculine

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• The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.

  Harold J. Seymour

  Boredom, Volunteer, Trouble

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• Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed up his forearms, and I could see his muscles working as he punched buttons. He was tall and lean and hard, and I wouldn't have been surprised if under his clothes he bore several scars, souvenirs from street fights and other reckless behavior. Not that I wanted a look under his clothes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fighting, Dark, Clothes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

  Martin Amis

  Curves, Careers, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2001). “The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000”, Vintage

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• National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

  John Taylor of Caroline

  Peace, War, People

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• Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

  Edward Albee

  Years, Six Year Olds, Modesty

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was no vulgarity in it. There was no bombast. There wasn't any of the usual Trump braggadocio. It was a teleprompter speech, but it was serious, studious, and it represented a solid understanding of issues and of the status quo.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Philadelphia, Issues

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It was in the nineties. [Bill] Clinton was president. And Clinton was making, you know, the usual Democrat move on guns after some of event, and Wayne LaPierre said, "I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

  Russell Baker

  Dream, Escaping, Dozen

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• My usual self is a very unusual self.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Self, Unusual

  Shelagh Delaney (2014). “A Taste of Honey”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.

  Sammy Hagar

  Mom, Dream, Dog

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

  Annie Lennox

  Real, Hero, Villain

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• How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.

  Janet Evanovich

  Home, Monkeys, Truck

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• Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.

  Jean M. Auel

  Men, Too Much, Enough

  Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.62, Bantam

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• Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual It was a weak pass okay

  Brandon Mull

  Good Luck, Weak, Okay

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• Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing. I think it is very usual and natural for a writer to commit suicide, because in order to keep on writing he must be a very strong person.

  Kobo Abe

  Suicide, Strong, Writing

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• I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

  George Carlin

  Small Steps, Sociopath, Stage

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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