Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.
if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.
I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.
It is. . . necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them.
I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I dont really spend on things I can make.
The difference between two men is usually a woman.
The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Hello?" A girl again. "I know you can hear me. I'm sorry my friend is such a wing nut. You can just ignore him. " "That's usually what we do," said the other feminine voice.
As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.
Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.
I think mascara is a must. If I'm going to wear makeup somewhere, and I'm doing it, it's usually really simple - it's just mascara and maybe a tiny bit of eyeshadow, but that's it.
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.
I have noticed. . . that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.