#usual

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#baby #bedtime #between #catching #collapse

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#agent #crude #director #each #hollywood

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#activists #against #chance #credible #funny

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#gratification #guns #important #instant #instant gratification

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#cry #feeling #four #give #go

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#come #dinner #down #family #go

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. ↗

— Ilka Chase

#cruelty #greatest #least #men #most

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match. ↗

— Stan Mikita

#get #going #hockey #hurt #i

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#albums #basically #being #covered #first