#usual

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

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#begin #changes #drawing #even #i

I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room. ↗

— Laura Linney

#gregarious #i #know #known #loud

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

Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself. ↗

— Bobby Locke

#club #fact #game #golfers #how

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

— Walter Lord

#extraordinary #highly #i #involving #look

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour. ↗

— David Low

#appearance #cartoon #days #full #labour

I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#spend #think #time #unusual #your

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes". ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#because #efforts #fail #i #i am