Quotes About Usual

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

What's going on?" he demanded. "The usual, old man," I replied cheerily. "Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.

normal's the watchword

What a day-to-day affair life is.

Where wages are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine is, what are the most usual; and experience seems to shew that law can never regulate them properly, though it has often pretended to do so.

I can see exactly what not to do at the moment. No doubt through the usual process of elimination I'll arrive at my favourite strategy of total paralysis.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

This is the usual way in which the State Department, without taking the least responsibility for the outcome, makes comments of an entirely unhelpful character in a spirit of complete detachment.'82

It was down in Jake's old barroom Behind the Patsies' park; Jake was settin' 'em up as usual And the night was agittin' dark. At the bar stood ole Verne Mackenzie, And his eyes was bloodshot red

Buscamos lo trágico en lo cómico, lo político en lo personal, lo personal que guía lo político, lo extraordinario detrás de lo usual, lo trivial en lo exaltado.

The usual surface stickiness was absent, and they absorbed nutrients at an alarmingly selfish rate. They had become parasites within their own house.

He was calm. Just another night of business as usual in his long and spectacularly violent life.

comfortable, in its accustomed

I'm fed up of doing run-of-the-mill stuff.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Hardbread looked concerned, as usual. Red Hat looked grim, as usual. Oxel had his usual shifty sideways squint like the knight herald was another man's sheep he was thinking of making off with. And Shivers just looked like Shivers, which was probably the most troubling of the lot.

I live a normal life.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

Round up the usual suspects.

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.

To those portions of the electorate fed up with politics as usual, Mr. Trump's willingness to say just about anything and to improvise as he goes seems more refreshing and trustworthy than disqualifying.

Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)