Top 100 Not Used Quotes
#1. It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.
Philippe Petit
#2. I am not used to hating. Hate sits heavy on my heart. It reeks. I can smell it rotting my insides and I taste it on my tongue.
Kopano Matlwa
#3. The whole town was like that. Probably there weren't three men in town who had not used guns, and used them a lot.
Louis L'Amour
#4. When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.
Joshua Bell
#5. There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they have a television mentality. I think people really are wary of sitting in a theatre too long. They're not used to it.
Rocco Landesman
#6. For untold ages the Indian race had not used family names. A new-born child was given a brand-new name. Blue-Star Woman was proud to write her name for which she would not be required to substitute another's upon her marriage, as is the custom of civilized peoples.
Zitkala-Sa
#7. I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I'm not used to it.
Jon Lester
#8. had come out and said - if not in so many words - that he was innocent of libel and that another truth existed. Precisely because she had not used the word "innocent," his innocence
Stieg Larsson
#9. And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
Michael Moore
#10. Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
Ma Jun
#11. Gee, I'm not used to looking at these without the meat on them!
William R. Maples
#12. If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
Karl Pilkington
#13. Layla tried to maintain eye contact, but couldn't. "You're not used to compliments," he concluded. "No," she confessed, looking back up. "Not ones like that." "That's too bad," he scowled, but then he raised his eyebrows. "We'll have to change that.
B.C. Burgess
#14. When the answer comes do not brush it away.
Utilize it, as when the answer is available but not used, what's the use of receiving your answer?
Helena Kalivoda
#15. I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.
Kesha
#16. Experiencing those moments of being alone ... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it ... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
Kate Winslet
#17. History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#18. Now that I've found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I'm not used to being ... afraid." A sudden realization came to her, "So this is love," she said quietly. "The daily prospect of joy or disaster
Zoe Archer
#19. Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.
Martin Parr
#20. That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
Hippocrates
#21. Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive.
Virgil Miller Newton
#22. Man's morality was not advancing as fast as man's science. Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed. We have never created a weapon we have not used!
Dan Brown
#23. Glad? You're jealous, plain and simple. You're not used to sharing. And you don't like being useless.
Victoria Aveyard
#24. Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.
Emlyn Hughes
#25. American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There's no shame in recognizing that. It's exposed me to a whole new generation, which is a little strange. I'm not used to young people thinking I'm cool.
Jessica Lange
#26. It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
Al Pacino
#27. Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.
Sylvester Stallone
#28. I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#29. He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details were everywhere.
Lish McBride
#30. I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#31. THE OLD LAB was not used for anything much except detention. But there was still a faint smell of old science clinging to it, from generations of experiments which had gone wrong.
Diana Wynne Jones
#32. Dancers carry themselves in completely different ways to how we do in our everyday lives. They are very free with their bodies which I'm not used too.
Kristin Cavallari
#33. I've not used a score in any of my films so far.
Andrea Arnold
#34. Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.
Carolyn Hax
#36. They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe
#37. You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down your chin. Likewise, the language of Dickens makes your mouth do strange things, and when you're not used to his words your jaw will creak.
Lloyd Jones
#38. Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.
Susanna Clarke
#39. I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
Laura Dekker
#40. [Tyson] Fury is big and [Wladimir] Klitschko's not used to fighting someone his size. If Fury can stop Klitschko grabbing and avoid that big right hand, he's got a chance. In the heavyweight division, it only takes one punch.
Joe Calzaghe
#41. I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.
Alice Walker
#42. I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
Andrew Mason
#43. I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more interesting mix, when you're watching the movie.
Jason Blum
#44. When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.
Laozi
#45. Every year that I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. - Mary Cholmondeley
Robin S. Sharma
#46. The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
Jeremy Rifkin
#47. Negatively correlated assets tend to work in harmony in a way that people are generally not used to seeing.
Roy Niederhoffer
#48. I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
Victor Borge
#49. I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.
Platon
#50. Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
Quinton Aaron
#51. In Iowa, we were not used to seeing the houses of well-known people on account of there were no well-known people in Iowa.
Bill Bryson
#52. I was used to driving my sun chariot across the sky, where every lane was the fast lane. I was not used to the Long Island Expressway. Believe me, even at midday in the middle of January, there is nothing express about your expressways.
Rick Riordan
#53. [the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature," he said. "I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.
Robin McKinley
#54. The more time I spend with you, the more my mind is cluttered. I'm not used to doing nice things for anyone but all I want to do is make you happy.
Annie Brewer
#55. He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.
Angie Sage
#56. Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.
Paula Fox
#57. If you're not used to compliments, they can really mess you up for a minute.
Louise Rozett
#58. What's the best home-based business opportunity in the world today? Without a doubt, it's network marketing. Like it or hate it, network marketing has created more millionaires than any other industry in history. There's just one problem - it can be hard if you're not used to it!
Kevin J. Donaldson
#59. Your brain can be your most powerful asset. But if not used properly, it can be your most powerful liability.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#60. Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#61. I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.
Jamie Linden
#62. India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.
Hanadi Falki
#63. A handful of gems from Somni:
"One's environment is a key to one's identity."
"An impulse can be both vaguely understood and strong."
"What is knowledge for, if not used to better our/one's existence?"
"My IQ may be higher but she looked more content then I felt.
David Mitchell
#65. I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
Serena Williams
#66. Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural, it can give away all of it.
Steve Buscemi
#67. He looked surprised, as if he were not used to such praise, but surely he must be, Tessa thought in confusion. Surely everyone who knew him knew how lucky they were.
Cassandra Clare
#68. Please don't do this - don't do this to me. If anything happened to you - "
He looked at her with surprise. There was already a red stain on the white bandages that wrapped his chest, where his movements had pulled his wound open. "I ... "
"What?"
"I'm not used to you loving me," he said.
Cassandra Clare
#69. Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Naguib Mahfouz
#70. He got up slowly, not bothering to curse himself for forgetting the stop where he had to disembark. He was not used to leaving things behind; he wondered how the bus stop escaped.
Faraaz Kazi
#71. When Judgment Day comes, we will regret the waste of a single moment not used for the glory of Christ. We will, however, not regret one moment we spent diligently studying God's Word and hiding it in our heart. We will only wish we'd spent more time doing this.
Andrew M. Davis
#72. I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
Deborah Eisenberg
#73. Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#74. I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.
Ellen Page
#75. Stop-and-search has the potential to cause immense resentment and honesty to the police, with all the implications that has for generating distrust and ending co-operation from the public, if it is not used fairly.
Theresa May
#76. I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.
Atticus Shaffer
#77. My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
Will Smith
#78. The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.
Maria V. Snyder
#79. They seem to be used to passing people, and probably not used to being passed.
Haruki Murakami
#80. The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.
Virchand Gandhi
#81. Harsh words and shouts are constantly being flung at my head, though I'm absolutely not used to it.
Anne Frank
#82. I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."
Robert Downey Jr.
#83. If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.
Kevin Bacon
#84. She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.
Janet Fitch
#85. We have millions of ways to lose this precious time - we turn on the TV, or pick up the telephone, or start the car and go somewhere. We are not used to being with ourselves, and we act as if we don't like ourselves and are trying to escape from ourselves. Meditation
Thich Nhat Hanh
#86. I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
Alice Walker
#87. True love takes its toll
On souls
Who are not used to feeling whole
Kate Tempest
#88. Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it.
Kieran Crowley
#89. Machinery which is not used is not capital.
Karl Marx
#90. I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.
Megan Hilty
#91. When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.
Lydia Davis
#92. The Olympics are getting mixed reviews. People are angry at NBC for showing a promo that revealed the winner of a swimming event even though the race hadn't aired yet. NBC apologized saying, 'We're just not used to people watching our network.'
Conan O'Brien
#93. Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Andrew Young
#94. Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.
Amanda Bouchet
#95. A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.
Charles Manson
#96. I tried to show my affection and gratitude with small attentions, but he would not allow it; he was not used to receiving affection, although it was his nature to squander it on others.
Isabel Allende
#97. Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.
Robert Breault
#98. I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.
David Levithan
#99. Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.
Neal Shusterman
#100. Things are different here. There will be rules and regulations that you are not used to. You will have to follow them. All of them.
Jettie Necole
