Top 100 Getting Used To Quotes
#1. I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.
Mischa Barton
#2. I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes - that it changes so fast.
Jennifer Lawrence
#3. Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.
Thomas Mullen
#4. You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.
Kristina Haynes
#5. It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.
Edie Falco
#6. I'm getting used to this planet and to this curious human culture which is as cheerfully enthusiastic as it is cheerfully crue
Annie Dillard
#7. I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
Dhani Harrison
#8. I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.
Marion Bartoli
#9. Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.
Tim Morrison
#10. It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them - but
Thomas Mann
#11. The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
David Mamet
#12. I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.
Jeremy Lin
#13. I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
Jeff Kinney
#14. I know it sounds silly, but it takes some time getting used to all the cameras in your face. I think it's like playing jazz. After I learn the rules, I can have fun and play a little bit.
Monica Raymund
#15. Pre-season isn't just about conditioning but also getting used to each other as a team and a group of men. You spend more time with these people than you do your own family. Pre-season is the time we get used to each other and work out how people work. It can be a lot of fun. Hard but fun.
Colin Kazim-Richards
#16. I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.
Elena Ferrante
#17. We're born alone and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them.
Erlend Loe
#18. Not so bad this ending because one is getting used to endings: life like Morse, a series of dots and dashes, never forming a paragraph.
Graham Greene
#19. I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
Evel Knievel
#20. Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone. I shouted my laughter to the
stars.
Frantz Fanon
#21. Seeing me shivering, he stretched a front leg toward the sweatshirt, pawing the edge and snarling when he realized he couldn't grab it.
"The lack of opposable thumbs is going to take some getting used to, huh?"
Kelley Armstrong
#22. I'm still getting used to the idea that people out in the world are reading my books. Every time I get a 'fan letter,' I am thrilled. But when people tell me that they're from the south or western Kentucky, and they say, 'I know exactly what you mean!' That's awesome.
Molly Harper
#23. The trees off to the side have been cut down to make a parking lot. You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.
Elizabeth Strout
#24. If I am peaceful ... is not peace,/is getting used to harm.
Dionne Brand
#25. The idea of having possessions took some getting used to.
Saroo Brierley
#26. It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero.
Alexandra Kerry
#27. When I came here, diagnosed as a schizophrenic, you spent days, months, talking to me and treating me as a human being. I was getting used to the life I'd decided to lead, to the other reality I'd created, but you wouldn't let me. I hated you, and now I love you.
Paulo Coelho
#28. Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her - for her body, her heart, and her freedom.
Andrei Platonov
#29. What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.
Tom Anderson
#30. One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week.
Gina Bellman
#31. Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?
Brett Somers
#32. I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to." "Does everyone pretty much think I'm just a sociopath who happens to have magical abilities?" "It's all you let people see," he said, "until now.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#34. He appears beside me and hands me the gun. Guess I'm getting used to the disappearing and reappearing act of his. I only had a slight urge to pee my pants.
Jennifer Harlow
#35. Tell you what," I said, my eyebrows rising. "You can drive me home if we keep to one topic on the way."
"Your father?" he guessed, and I nodded. I was getting used to this deal-with-a-demon business.
Kim Harrison
#36. Della looked around. Kylie and Lucas and her mom sat chatting about selling her house. Lucas must be getting used to Kylie's mom, because he actually looked comfortable instead of miserable, like he usually did when Kylie forced him to spend time with her mom.
C.C. Hunter
#37. One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.
Dennis Franz
#38. The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#39. There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
Ann Patchett
#40. It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.
Amanda Hocking
#41. My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.
Scott Adams
#42. Maybe ... in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe ... maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.
Bette Greene
#43. First I have to accept the fact that you're kindhearted, now I have to accept the fact that you're insightful as well. I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#44. Deborah was the only person on earth who knew what I really was, and even though she was still getting used to the idea, I had thought she understood the very careful boundaries set up by Harry, and understood, too, that I would never cross them.
Jeff Lindsay
#45. Standing under freezing cold showers every morning, - I did that. I got up to seven minutes most mornings, and it actually works; it immunizes your body, and your body starts getting used to the cold. It really works.
Liam Neeson
#46. I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.
Leigh Steinberg
#47. Every bed I've ever slept in never felt like my own. There were always strange sheets, strange smells - and just when I thought I'd be getting used to it, we'd have to leave. I got so tired of running."
Then stay. You don't ever have to run again.
Felice Stevens
#48. It's just taking some getting used to. The snarling, the hissing, the purring. Then I have to deal with it from the baby ... ."
"Ha, ha," Mace stated dryly.
Shelly Laurenston
#49. I never thought I might become famous. It takes getting used to.
Jose Reyes
#50. A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
A. J. Bowen
#51. I'm getting used to the fact that you find me incredibly forgettable.
Erica Cameron
#52. Szilard looked over at Robbins. "Is it true?" he said. "Which part, sir?" Robbins said. "That you don't like General Mattson," Szilard said. "He can take some getting used to, sir," Robbins said. "By which he means I'm an asshole,
John Scalzi
#53. Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
Abraham Maslow
#54. I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.
Aurora Aksnes
#55. I've always been terrified of getting used to something that is actually killing me-a relationship or a job. But in those cases, you can count on a friend to say something. The Internet is different, because all my friends are in the same relationship.
Miranda July
#56. Being single means getting used to your own company and not inventing excuses to keep people around you, None of which makes me feel any less bereft. The latest revelation: you have to relearn being your own again!
Mhairi McFarlane
#57. That's why I'm sorry. I'm sorry because you shouldn't have to be everything to me. I had you, but I'd forgotten that I had myself too. It's a new feeling, something I'm getting used to.
Marie Lu
#58. I want to show you that you can be funny and hot. You can drink and read. People are still getting used to what I am.
Ke$ha
#59. I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.
Rachel Joyce
#60. Many of the most charming women I know possess at least on cat or dog. Maybe after getting used to an affectionate quadruped it is hard to settle for a man.
Luigina Sgarro
#61. You dead awhile there, mon." "It happens," he said. "I'm getting used to it." "You dealin' wi' th' darkness, mon." "Only game in town, it looks like." "Jah love, Case,
William Gibson
#62. I'm just getting used to all the interviews and promo things, I'm slowly learning. It's very strange.
Alex Parks
#63. It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.
Patricia Wentworth
#64. People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.
Andre Previn
#65. She entered his life without knocking, as one might step into the wrong room because of its vague resemblance to one's own. She stayed there forgetting the way out and quietly getting used to the strange creatures she found there
Vladimir Nabokov
#66. The negativity took some getting used to, but at the end of the day, life's too short. It's too short to get upset about what other people think . . . too short not to do what makes you happy . . . too short to not call that person back, to stay angry, to hold a grudge.
Elizabeth Meyer
#67. When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.
Laurel Clark
#68. Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
Syd Barrett
#69. Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs. She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought. On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed. Cool.
J.R. Ward
#70. That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.
J.D. Robb
#71. We were almost getting used to playing without fans in the Champions League. Jokes aside though, I think help from our fans will be indispensable for such a big match.
Roberto Mancini
#72. I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.
Leona Lewis
#73. A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
Vanessa Hudgens
#74. That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.
Aryn Kyle
#75. I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food. I also want them to experiment - they don't have to love everything, but they do have to try it.
Alison Sweeney
#76. I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
Lydia Ko
#77. Speed takes a little bit of getting used to, but rules have to be followed. At any speed, the more you run, the more you get used to it.
Mario Andretti
#78. I probably have the worst wardrobe. It's the most ill-fitting with the worst patterns and colors and the most nipple rubbage. There's bad chafing, and it's always tight in all the wrong places. What's sad is that I'm kinda getting used to it.
Josh Hopkins
#79. Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.
Rick Riordan
#80. The toughest part has been getting used to being known. I've always been the guy in the background, being the actual artist is a whole new experience for me!
Ne-Yo
#81. Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.
Paula Fox
#82. It takes considerable getting used to. I hated it for two years. It intimidated me daily until one morning when someone pushed me on a bus and I pushed back. After I pushed back I realized I'd become a part of it.
Harper Lee
#83. Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
Sally Hawkins
#84. Anyway it was an idea of mother's and she often used to repeat it, that you ended up getting used to everything.
Albert Camus
#85. Writing 'Magneto' as part of a team took a little getting used to.
Cullen Bunn
#86. I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.
Bubba Watson
#87. I was starting to think of her as the "Goth Van Gogh" on a good day or "Vampira" on a bad one. She took a little getting used to.
Judith Fertig
#88. I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.
Jim Cummings
#89. I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'
Conan O'Brien
#90. The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.
Nick Goepper
#91. The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.
Jaromir Jagr
#92. I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.
Florence King
#93. [Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.
John Dos Passos
#94. Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.
Edna Ferber
#95. I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.
Ronald D. Moore
#96. I'm NOT used to it! But ... I'm not as scared as I was before. Getting rejected is painful, but there are also people who accept me. We aren't alone, you know. And that's why we have nothing to be afraid of.
Sakura Tsukuba
#97. I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.
Patrick Macnee
#98. I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
George Burns
#99. I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.
Joyce Carol Oates
#100. I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
Otis Blackwell
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