Used Quotes

I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

Dear semi hot girl taking photos on a boat. It's not your boat so stop acting like you own it. You drive a used Civic.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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.'

To me, my feelings and pride are important. Although I like you it's not enough to be used like that.

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.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

I used to hate my hair. Now I love it. I spend hours brushing my hair out after it dries. I love it when it's big.

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

I don't necessarily "deal" with the criticism of others. I used to, but now I'm so confident in my walk with Christ that it simply no longer impacts me. I can't allow it to. I'm on a mission!

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.