Used Quotes

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

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 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 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.

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.

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

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.

I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

I used to say I and Me Now it's Us, now it's We

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.