Always Used Quotes

#1. People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

Little Richard

#2. When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you could imagine. I used to watch it with him, and I loved it.

Erica Cerra

#3. I've been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I always used to stock up on clothes. I love the fact that it supports great British designers.

Rita Ora

#4. In front of the officers, in front of Captain Phasma especially, they always used their appropriate designations,

Greg Rucka

#5. My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

Jane Goodall

#6. Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.

Penelope J. Stokes

#7. The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried

Douglas Adams

#8. Norstrom always used to say that I had two
different brains working alternatively in my head:
the well developed brain of a fool and the un-
developed brain of a sort of genius.

Axel Munthe

#9. The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in ... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

Pat O'Shane

#10. Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas.

Zooey Deschanel

#11. 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

Aaron Johnson

#12. Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

J.M. Barrie

#13. I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me.

Graham Greene

#14. Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

John Pilger

#15. At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

Bryan Ferry

#16. Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie.

C.L. Wilson

#17. I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

Carine Roitfeld

#18. My mother always used to say, The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana.

Betty White

#19. I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

John Noble

#20. Mainly, she lived. She got on with the small acts of life. She continued to ensure that - in the phrase she always used inside her own head - she got away with it. No one found her out.

Maggie O'Farrell

#21. As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.

Hannibal

#22. False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#23. Evan always used to day that it wasn't that you couldn't see that you should be afraid of, but what was right in front of you, in plain sight.

Kathleen Glasgow

#24. My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

Jenson Button

#25. When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic.

Nell Newman

#26. My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

Cameron Diaz

#27. I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

Jonathan Galassi

#28. I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

Anne McCaffrey

#29. My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

Elton John

#30. Because I've been a full professor doing research and lecturing at the University of California, I didn't have a lot of time to write, so I have always used my unconscious a great deal to do the really heavy lifting.

Gregory Benford

#31. I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock ... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

Ian McEwan

#32. You always used to comfort us by saying you had everything in life because you had twice the hands to hold.

Louis Stevens

#33. I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

Roger Waters

#34. And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to

Morgan Matson

#35. When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

John Darnielle

#36. Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit.

Brian Froud

#37. I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

Barry Venison

#38. Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy ...

Emo Philips

#39. I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable,

Gavin McInnes

#40. When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people ... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

Armando Iannucci

#41. He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism ...

Walter J. Moore

#42. I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.

Harry Shearer

#43. I always used to put on plays when I was younger for my family to watch, when I was 10 or something. I used to force older members of my family to watch the plays and younger members of my family to be characters in the plays - and my personal favorite was Batman.

Erin Richards

#44. The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#45. I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

Brendan Gleeson

#46. I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine.

Lily Cole

#47. That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

Cara Delevingne

#48. I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

Gareth Gates

#49. My mum always used to say you couldn't see where you were going until you'd come to terms with where you'd been.

Garrett Leigh

#50. My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Brian Eno

#51. My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there's a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.

Jenny Han

#52. I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used ... Play, smile, think of me ... All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

#53. I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

Chris Lowell

#54. I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

Clive Owen

#55. I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.

Wylie Dufresne

#56. My mum always used to say to me that, out of her three boys, 'Chris, you were the girl!' I'd speak to her about far more things (than my brothers would) and far more things than she needed to hear about, too. I was a chatty kid.

Chris Hemsworth

#57. In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

Sarah Brightman

#58. As I always used to tell Thomas Wolfe, there are three things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Bill Bryson

#59. In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

Albert Brooks

#60. My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

Apolo Ohno

#61. I think I've always used the whip in the correct way. I see marked horses every day, and it's not a pretty sight, but I've never marked a horse. Never.

Tony McCoy

#62. I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

Geoffrey Fisher

#63. My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was.

Paul Pierce

#64. So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make ... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#65. See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

Herbie Hancock

#66. My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

Jimmy Carr

#67. I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Sandra Cisneros

#68. But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#69. I always used to say to my ex-girlfriends that I could never take a good photograph of them, because there was too much of an intimacy between us, but actually the real thing is, if there's a proper intimacy between you ... I find it really compelling and exciting - it's quite good foreplay.

Rankin

#70. But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#71. Anytime God wanted to reach people he always used people to do it. So, anytime the Holy Spirit wants to reach other people, it is always through people.

Andy Andrews

#72. Silence always used to guide
A truth that could never be denied

Nema Al-Araby

#73. Graham always used to say that I was shocked when he came out. That implies some sort of moral objection. Untrue. I was not 'shocked', I was very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very surprised.

John Cleese

#74. I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

Julian Fellowes

#75. It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Tom Brands

#76. I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me ... There was no shadow over my childhood.

Angela Merkel

#77. Mother always used to say, 'If you want to succeed in life, please the women. They are the real bosses. The men don't count.

P.G. Wodehouse

#78. I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.

Veronica Roth

#79. I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.

Jen Lancaster

#80. Did happiness always used to be this complicated?" Amy asked after a bit.
I shrugged, " I have no idea. Happiness and I are barely on speaking terms these days.

Alexis Hall

#81. That always used to make you happy don't do the trick anymore, because they can't break through the sadness and fear that are covering over everything in your life.

Shauna Niequist

#82. Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Allan Bloom

#83. My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

Desmond Tutu

#84. I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written ... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

Taylor Swift

#85. Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you."
"Sir?"
"It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority."
"Sir?"
"That's practically zen.

Terry Pratchett

#86. I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

Corbin Bernsen

#87. I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.

Vanessa Hudgens

#88. Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

Thelma Schoonmaker

#89. In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world.

Jane Austen

#90. I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.

David Beckham

#91. Christmas always used to get me down. There was something oppressive about all those twinkling colored lights.
"Are you happy?" "Do you fit in anywhere?" ... is what it felt like they were asking me.

Chica Umino

#92. My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

George R R Martin

#93. The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

Evan Parker

#94. I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.

Robert Preston

#95. I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

Radha Mitchell

#96. It's funny," she said reflectively, "but I always used to think that if only I was slimmer everything in my life would be all right. I didn't realize until it happened that it would just open up a whole new set of problems." ~Maxine

W. Soliman

#97. I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#98. All my life, I've been very aware of my body. I have always used it as a gauge of things. When I look at a person, and I see their body, that's the beginning of knowledge about them. Furthermore, I respect the body.

John Edgar Wideman

#99. I've always used Old English in certain songs.

Erik Rutan

#100. Before I was a Scientist, I was a Monk. And before I was a Monk, I was a naive young mind with ever- flowing streams of questions. And one of those questions, that always used to create intense ripples of curiosity in my psyche, was - Does God exist? And has anyone seen or experienced him?

Abhijit Naskar