No Use Quotes

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

My manager said, "Don't use liquor as a crutch!" I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word 'race' because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street.

The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

I equate freedom and peace. And I believe America, given its position in the world, must use our power to promote freedom.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

Make a good use of the present.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

I use as sensitive a line as possible when I draw on the plate.

Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.