#usual

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#old #old story #same #story #truth

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#famous #good #good work #happens #i

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#anyway #beethoven #compose #done #example

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#autobiography #book #boring #details #full

I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying. ↗

— Uri Geller

#dream #dreaming #dreams #especially #fly

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great. ↗

— Brad Gilbert

#already #andre #federer #great #i

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#desk #rituals #special #usually #writing

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#big #history #intuitive #look #obstacles

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#exaggeration #gain #governments #history #i

Drums usually seem to tune themselves. ↗

— Levon Helm

#seem #themselves #tune #usually