Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wislawa Szymborska

Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Nellie Bly

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Martin Amis

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Marjane Satrapi

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Franz Ferdinand

He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.

George Carlin

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.