#usual

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?' ↗

— Tertullian

#earning #harsh #i #live #living

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lonely #principled #usually

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#away #brain #especially #film #fun

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#clever #committees #i #interest #people

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#because #her #i #power #seized

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. ↗

— William Thomas

#deal #fact #her #his #important

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#best #fact #heaven #his #in fact

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. ↗

— James Buchan

#back #because #boom #borrowing #came

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#any #election #i #mandate #measurement

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#because #better #go #had #i