Quotes About Usual

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

I do try to live a normal life.

As for a plan of action, the group fell back on the usual punt by panels of this sort when they don't know what else to do: it recommended the creation of a presidential commission.

Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now. We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes. The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick.

Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now.

The ordinary can be like medicine.

I lead a very boring, normal life.

I lead my life as normal.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

Mogget's voice. Sam whirled around. "Mogget? Is that you? Where are you?" "Here, and regretting it as per usual," replied Mogget, and a small white cat sauntered out from behind a fern tree.

She was missing more references than usual. White ignorant folk like me, she thought, we're the immigrants today.

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can read analytically.

I lead a very conventional life.

You know this town. It's not different from other towns. The newspaper doesn't speak for them. Not everybody here is a damned fool. And, as usual, the less a fool a man is the quieter he keeps.

were almost commonplace.

To the extend that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

Prudence dressed with her usual elegance and painted her face and eyes with almost more than her usual care. It was at once force of habit and a kind of defiance.

This conversation was remarkable only in its unremarkableness.

Curiously undeterred by the plague, the court held the elaborate ceremonial of the Order of the Garter as usual in 1349,

The horror and despair at so much bloody flesh, nauseating in part, and in part very beautiful, was fairly equivalent to our usual impression upon seeing one another.

I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness.

You are the epitome of normal.

They found seats. The train was crowded, as usual. The young men looked around and were pleased to see that there were no uniformed police, no armed guards of any type, not that they expected any. This was America, the most under-policed nation on earth.