#usual

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

#change #great #great men #men #nations

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ↗

— Mark Twain

#good #impromptu #me #more #prepare

Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#because #before #day #live #lived

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. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bat #beginnings #form #hand #i

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips. ↗

— Ian Wright

#lips #name #people #usually

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip. ↗

— Bern Williams

#chips #fall #figure #hit #may

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. ↗

— Charles Williams

#getting #good #good people #people #pleasant

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#melody #per #rap #songs #usually

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#been #case #going #make #out

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fundamentalist #got #haven #i #stuff