Used Quotes

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

I used to like studying a lot.

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.

I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

I used to dream of medals and championships, but now I dream solely of a blue-eyed fighter who one day changed my life, when he put his lips on mine. . .

When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.

When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.

I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.