Quotes About Used

#1. My wife was fitted with a coil. For about 18 months I hated it! She used to pick up CB signals.

Bob Monkhouse

#2. You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Franz Kafka

#4. Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

Bill Mumy

#5. Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

Thora Hird

#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. I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

John McGahern

#8. Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine.
Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh.
I really hate it when girls do that.I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.

P.C. Cast

#9. Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.

Winkie Pratney

#10. All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

Luke Montgomery

#11. My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Rudy Giuliani

#12. Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#13. Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Michael Gambon

#14. When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

Yayoi Kusama

#15. I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

Seth Gordon

#16. The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks
... So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.

Jay-Z

#17. Once, Princess Leigh-Cheri used a papal candlestick for the purpose of self-gratification. She had hoped that at the appropriate moment she might be visited by either the Lamb or the Beast, be, as usual, only Ralph Nader attended her.

Tom Robbins

#18. After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands

Wright Morris

#19. I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

Orhan Pamuk

#20. They all agree, Italy is not what it used to be. What is? All my adult life I've heard how Silicon Valley used to be all orchards, how Atlanta used to be genteel, how publishing used to be run by gentlemen, how houses used to cost what a car costs now. All true, but what can you do but live now?

Frances Mayes

#21. I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory."
Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?"
No sir!"
Then wonderful, welcome back!

Johnny Depp

#22. My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

Stark Young

#23. I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

Sigourney Weaver

#24. I used to love going to shows and finding new bands, but the Internet takes the fun out of it. Like a band? You can buy and download every single song they have ever done within five minutes.

Timothy Simons

#25. patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing.

Joe Abercrombie

#26. I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point.

Andrew Keegan

#27. When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too ... I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#28. I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

E.L. James

#29. I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away.

Richard Flanagan

#30. I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.

Mike Birbiglia

#31. Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

Joshua Foer

#32. When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

Iyanla Vanzant

#33. I used to send Tony Romo texts throughout the season just to encourage him, just to wish him luck and just to tell him to get on his offensive line. I hated watching this young man get sacked as much as he did, especially when it came down to big games.

Emmitt Smith

#34. Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.

Claude Bernard

#35. I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Christopher Hitchens

#36. The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.

Bernadette Soubirous

#37. I love you." His voice was straightforward, affectionate. "You make me remember who I used to be. You make me want to be that man again. Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. I'm yours, if you'll have me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#38. I would say that I had to change about eating out. I used to love eating out all the time. Eating out isn't always good. I ate a lot of fast food. So I had to slow that down and that's helped me a lot.

Jadeveon Clowney

#39. When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.

Josh Lanyon

#40. He wasn't a tiny meowing kitten by any means, but he wasn't the pit bull I'd become used to, either.

Kandi Steiner

#41. My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

Magnus Carlsen

#42. Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

Rachel Kushner

#43. Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#44. The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

Terry Eagleton

#45. My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

Dennis Wilson

#46. When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#47. 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

#48. The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp.

Bonnie D. Ford

#49. There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Francis Arinze

#50. I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

Lucy Hawking

#51. I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.

Anna Chancellor

#52. The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often; it's something special, and it's what makes stars. It's luck, and basically, it's genes.

Shirley Eaton

#53. The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

Garry Trudeau

#54. There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

Mike Huckabee

#55. To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.

Shane Claiborne

#56. Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Richard Carlson

#57. When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

Mark E. Smith

#58. The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#59. Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse

Steve Aylett

#60. War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

Salman Rushdie

#61. As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

#62. Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

Julien Green

#63. It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

Maimonides

#64. I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Diego Della Valle

#65. When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.

Jeff Kinney

#66. I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one

Candice Bergen

#67. All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

Cy Young

#68. I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.

Johnny Vegas

#69. My real life was when I was just a working guy. You know, it's OK to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you're gonna have to pass through All Right. And when you get to All Right, take a good look around, and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

Bill Withers

#70. I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties every day to her music. So I am very familiar with the albums of Miss Hilary Duff.

Gillian Jacobs

#71. I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

Sting

#72. I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

Victoria Beckham

#73. You know when I was younger, I used to lick anything I didn't want taken from me.

Christine Zolendz

#74. Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

Lars Leijonborg

#75. My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Taylor Caldwell

#76. I used to have terrible acne on my face: red, splotchy discoloration. And mucus - I was constantly blowing my nose. Then one day, this woman sits down next to me on a bus, and says, 'You're lactose-intolerant.' It all cleared up in three days. That changed my life. Doctors couldn't figure it out.

Woody Harrelson

#77. The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power, and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use.

Umberto Eco

#78. I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Rodney Dangerfield

#79. It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.

Norman Dodd

#80. My
mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could

E. E. Cummings

#81. At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.

Elaine Pagels

#82. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

Alexander McCall Smith

#83. Anything you say may be used against you.

Betty Smith

#84. I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.

Sarah Wayne Callies

#85. We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

Donald Miller

#86. The worst of these politics of revolution is this: they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions. But

Edmund Burke

#87. People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Assata Shakur

#88. A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

Charles Stross

#89. I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

Mark Lanegan

#90. I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying.-RVM

R.v.m.

#91. My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a father/son games. Pin the blame on me, rock, paper, get me another beer, casino night.

Christopher Titus

#92. My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.'

Gina Carano

#93. Now that I had experienced real freedom, I'm not sure I would ever get used to walls again. Walls loomed, leaned in, and whispered nasty things in your ears. They imposed and imprisoned. I hated them.

Lauren Nicolle Taylor

#94. I used to get really ticked about preachers who talked too much about grace, because they tempted me to not be disciplined. I figured what people needed was a kick in the butt, and if I failed at godliness it was because those around me weren't trying hard enough.

Donald Miller

#95. I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

Brian Bell

#96. Okay, I should probably mention right here that Brandon used the real word, but this is my story, so I'm cleaning it up a little.

Rachel Hawkins

#97. I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

Vin Diesel

#98. Whenever one feels like saying "the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector"", one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#99. His mother said that all children were arsonists at heart, and if not for the lighter he'd have used matches.

Margaret Atwood

#100. The Buke of Ye Chess used the game as the basis for a series of sermons on morality. Neither book illustrates play or player improvement, but uses the chessboard and pieces to 'allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the common good'2.

Laura Caine Ramsey