Quotes About Using Someone

#1. There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.

Jill Paton Walsh

#2. The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.

John Entwistle

#3. Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.

Vicki Pettersson

#4. You can't walk through life using someone else's plan.

Lisa De Jong

#5. Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#6. Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

Harry Mulisch

#7. It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours.

Jason Fried

#8. That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

J.R. Ward

#9. But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

Michael Foley

#10. Using someone else's ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.

Charles F. Glassman

#11. I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that.

Pete Hamill

#12. If you are not using your smile, you're like someone with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.

Les Giblin

#13. I'm not brainwashed." I wish everyone would stop using that word to describe me.
"That's exactly what someone who's been brainwashed would say.

Jessica Brody

#14. Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

Jane Rule

#15. There were plenty of ways to hurt someone without using your fists.

Kristen Simmons

#16. I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks.

Sean Booth

#17. If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,

Craig Johnson

#18. So for the sake of your identity," she said, "you avoided using your real name, which effectively allowed someone else to use your real name and steal your identity.

Joshua Ferris

#19. You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love.

Suzy Kassem

#20. The key is to realize that the value of your possessions, isn't the amount of money you spent to purchase them, it's the amount of pleasure you derive from using them. So, if you never use it, pass it on to someone who will.

Eden Tayadora

#21. As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

Tim Conway

#22. If you're not pissing someone off on social media, you're not using it aggressively enough.

Guy Kawasaki

#23. Selfish people are always seeking ways to advance themselves. They only notice you when you have something beneficial to them. Realize when someone is using you for their own personal gains and put a stop to it.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#24. As you search for your calling, do you attempt to find someone He is using in exactly the same way? Stop! Of the six billion people on this planet, that person may not exist - because God is creative.

Beth Moore

#25. If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

Byron Katie

#26. German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

Willie Rushton

#27. Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

Thurston Moore

#29. I think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth, but you don't necessarily want to hear someone using that as a just kind of a in-the-moment, fun, careless expression.

Solange Knowles

#30. The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way.

Volker Bertelmann

#31. She could think of no other reason for this boy to continue to visit her if not to use her in some way.

Morgan Rhodes

#32. The clump-and-thud of avalanching books suggested that someone must be using the weapon of knowledge in an unconventional fashion.

Dean Koontz

#33. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Anthony Noto

#34. The words stopped and the spinning feeling in my head, if only because it felt as though someone had had all my thoughts before, which was comforting, like knowing that people had survived a tornado using the same basement you were currently locked away in ...

Matthew Quick

#35. To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

Danny Sugerman

#36. If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn't it be aimed at those who are using their power to abuse someone who is in a weaker, more vulnerable position?

Ken Wilson

#37. Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

Douglas Rushkoff

#38. Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Rita Dove

#39. If someone had told me, that day at the beach, that before long I'd find myself using my four teeth to scrape the bark off trees, I would have said they were psychoneurotically disturbed.

Lemony Snicket

#40. Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

Gene Spafford

#41. My dear, here is lesson number one for using opportunity; waste no time on false humility. Tell the world about your achievements don't wait for someone else to do it.

Kate Alcott

#42. Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

Beth Ditto

#43. Well, as I said, you look terrible, for one thing. Beat-up terrible. Like someone was using you as a punching bag." He ran a hand gently over his face. "Is it really that bad?" He sighed as I nodded. "Is that the only reason for your concern, Dr. Fisher?" He paused in between bites.

J.M. Richards

#44. That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that.

Daniela Hantuchova

#45. Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

Jessica Valenti

#46. As they say, it's possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true.

Sahara Sanders

#47. Ut she didn't understand and couldn't accept using that unhappiness as an excuse or rationale for being unfaithful. why didn't people just end it? if they wanted someone else, or something else, why not break it off clean first instead of cheating, lying, tolerating, just existing?

Nora Roberts

#48. When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

Joanne Harris

#49. I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Rand Paul

#50. I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Lucian Freud

#51. I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.

Jason Peter

#52. Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

Stephanie Roberts

#53. I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

David Hockney

#54. What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.

Jack Dorsey

#55. I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down ... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

Garrett Hedlund

#56. It seems like someone is using wars and our economic crisis to spread distrust and rancor among the population. In times like these, those are dangerous feelings to spread around.

Riccardo Bruni

#57. I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.

Rose Leslie

#58. Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.

Karen Marie Moning

#59. Using the word chic while insulting someone doesn't make it okay.

Luella Christie

#60. There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.

Paul Levy

#61. One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

Nick Hornby

#62. While actors play with guns for make-believe, the guns themselves are by no means make-believe; they're real. Even when the actor is using blanks, there are all kinds of safety protocols to follow when shooting one at someone. Pulling the trigger is the easy part.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#63. Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you?

David Mitchell

#64. When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.

Dada Bhagwan

#65. If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!

Henry Waxman

#66. The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.

Bruce Lee

#67. It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands.

Faraaz Kazi

#68. Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I'm using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense desire; an enthusiastic ardor for something or someone.

Cassandra King

#69. The next time someone chides you for using your intuition, inform them that you are just checking in with the 96 percent of the universe that can't be counted up, analyzed or measured.

Catherine Carrigan

#70. If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

Steve Coogan

#71. I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

Jeremy Renner

#72. To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.

Mallory Ortberg

#73. It's naivety to think that we can just change someone's lifetime belief system using some casual conversations. It cannot happen!

Assegid Habtewold

#74. A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

Brenda Laurel

#75. It's totally outrageous, ... for someone to take these domain names and then solicit funds, run them through what looks like a legitimate charity using pictures and other hurricane victims, when in reality that money was running to his hate sites.

Jay Nixon

#76. A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.

Janet Fitch

#77. No," Gideon says. "No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.

Paula Stokes

#78. The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Computations using the science of probability on just 8 of these prophecies show the chance that someone could have fulfilled all 8 prophecies is 10 (to the 17th power), or 1 in 100 quadrillion.

Fritz Ridenour

#79. You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

Michael Bolton

#80. It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.

Stieg Larsson

#81. Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
red flag to a bu ... was like putting something very annoying in front of
someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett

#82. feet - "Charlotte." Someone inside was using her

Tom Wolfe

#83. When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.

Terry Tempest Williams

#84. And being alone made me want to talk to someone my own age. Someone who understood that using the "f" word wasn't a measure of my lack of imagination. Sometimes using that word just made me feel free.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#85. Holy guacamole. Was that a double entendre? I swear that was a double entendre. Someone hold my panties on for me because Mason Lowe was freaking flirting with me, using double entendres.

Linda Kage

#86. You have feet, and if you don't make use of them it's a loss and a waste. Someone is telling you now so that in the future you cannot say: "No one told me that it was important to enjoy using my feet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#87. I don't think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips ... Or any other body part.

Jenny Han

#88. As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.

Chris Matakas

#89. I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

Frank Abagnale