Quotes About Usual

At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly ever necessary , since the social context is so far from neutral. To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.

Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)

Queerness offers the promise of failure as a way of life...but it is up to us whether we choose to make good on that promise in a way that makes a detour around the usual markers of accomplishment and satisfaction.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

The announcer on WFMT, a major fine-arts station in Chicago, droned in his usual calm voice

There was definitely a problem; the humans needed to recharge or sleep or whatever or their decision-making abilities would be even worse than usual.

Hello," he said, his usual brilliant conversation opener.

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

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.