Used Quotes

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

I went to tranny bars and kind of got used to being around that and then getting dressed up.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.