Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
Christopher Morley

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
Bo Bennett

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John Le Carre

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John Le Carre

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.
Murray Walker

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
Kathy Valentine

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.
Donald Cram

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.
Tracey Ullman

It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!
Mila Kunis

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Anita Desai

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.
Lucinda Williams

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
Christian Bale

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
Bern Williams

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.
Donald Fagen

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.
Tim Roth

He who gets the best players usually wins.
Bobby Bowden

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
Scott Caan

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
Francis Ford Coppola