“I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.”
Katharine Hepburn
“While it is not customary, it is not forbidden for this council to provide feedback to federal officials. The cost (of the war) to the community is tremendous.”
Jessica Thill
“As is customary, we did have a plan in the event of termination, so she's certainly not left high and dry.”
Eddie Young
“Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori”
Howard Gardner
“If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.”
Rudolf Carnap
“Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."”
Ambrose Bierce
