#usual

All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#believed #briefings #bush #house #i

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#originality #plagiarizing #something #unfamiliar #usually

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#artists #cut #i #love #other

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#good #indecent #mode #more #much

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. ↗

— Jet Li

#action films #arts #back #bad #bad guy

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations. ↗

— Walter Lord

#extraordinary #highly #i #involving #look

I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too. ↗

— Jordyn Wieber

#balance #classes #doing #done #get

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#away #bad #bad one #difficult #flash