Quotes About Getting Used To Something

#1. 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

#2. I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Bruce Nauman

#3. I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.

Katie Price

#4. Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.

Tim Morrison

#5. 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

#6. I'm not a cop. I'm just a tattoo artist. I'm just a guy who used to be in love with a girl. I'm just a fool who's been fooled too many times before. I'm just a man who's finally getting his revenge.

Karina Halle

#7. 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

#8. Of course, if we were lucky, we wouldn't be getting chased by an army of zombies through the quarantine area that used to be downtown Santa Cruz. We'd be somewhere safer, like Bikini Atoll just before the bomb testing kicked off.

Mira Grant

#9. I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

Alberto Tomba

#10. The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things ... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

Don Bluth

#11. 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

#12. All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#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. Maybe I don't take myself quite as seriously as I used to, but the work has gotten better and more interesting, and I'm just having more fun. It's getting more and more fun with each role.

William Sadler

#15. Hot Cheetos! Ohhhhh! I used to crave them. I remember I used to eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I had to stop. I had to turn it around because it was getting addicting.

Rahim Moore

#16. I play in bars all the time in the States, so I'm kind of used to it. I've just got off the road with the family in Australia, and I enjoyed it but it feels really good to be getting back to doing this stuff.

Martha Wainwright

#17. I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

Cary Elwes

#18. It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

J.M. Coetzee

#19. Wherever we are seeing something getting used, that to us is an early indicator that there might be something that people want. And then let's figure out how to make that great. And then let's go figure out monetization.

Satya Nadella

#20. The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

Ella Baker

#21. Both men had talked of their intentions to commit suicide. Both used the typical argument - they had nothing more to expect from life. In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something

Viktor E. Frankl

#22. 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

#23. I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.

Betty Wright

#24. 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

#25. It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.

Sean Booth

#26. And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

Sanford I. Weill

#27. Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.

Michel Martin

#28. I absolutely miss dancing. Don't want to do it for a living, I'm getting old, I can't move like I used to. If I had the opportunity to do something on Broadway or a musical, I would jump at the opportunity.

Michael K. Williams

#29. At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

Sachin Tendulkar

#30. You always worry and you always fear what's next. But you eventually just push forward knowing you can't really do much about getting rid of the anxiety. You see people get pets after their kids leave the house because they're so used to having something around to dote on and worry about.

Drew Magary

#31. 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

#32. I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

Joyce Carol Oates

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. [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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

Thomas Mullen

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#48. 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

#49. I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.

Donnie Yen

#50. You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.

Kristina Haynes

#51. It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

Edie Falco

#52. 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

#53. It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.

Adrian Edmondson

#54. I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Dhani Harrison

#55. My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

Kevin Allen

#56. 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

#57. When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.

Megyn Price

#58. I'm getting made fun of because I used to be fat? The laws of bullying allow you to be cruel even when the victim had made strides for improvement? This is when I realized that bullies have no code of conduct.

Mindy Kaling

#59. I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Harry Treadaway

#60. I'm well aware that you're a man used to getting your way. But this time, I'm afraid you're destined for disappointment.

Maya Banks