#usual

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#beasts #big #big surprise #books #end

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

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#came #dedicated #father #first #focused

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#end #government #in the end #our #people

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#efficient #example #face #far #for example

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. ↗

— Moss Hart

#audience #clock #far #generally #hearing

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#course #education #gave #gone #had

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#crosses #everyone #i #me #mean

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster. ↗

— Chris Morris

#disaster #ends #pursuit #usually

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#bridge #inexperience #mistakes #usual #wisdom