(1568 quotes found)
“If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman”
Coco Chanel
“I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me that I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or can believe in that or can see the beauty of that or see the ugliness in that and the statement that needs to be made. So it's all kind of me.”
Angelina Jolie
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
Herodotus
“Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.”
Wilhelm Stekel
“One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.”
Giovanni Falcone
“Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.”
William Allen White
“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”
Charles de Saint-Evremond
“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”
Johann Georg Zimmermann
“I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.”
Jackson Pollock
“I'm usually all about the tight jeans and little T-shirt, but sometimes I want to put on a black, sequined dress and be a freaking girl.”
Britney Spears