Used Quotes

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

All right, stop whatcha doin, cause I'm about to ruin The image and the style that you're used to.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

The cybermen are good monsters, I think. My earliest memories are of the cybermen from when I used to watch when I was younger. It's nice to have them back.

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

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

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.

Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring, so you're not eating bland food, especially if you're used to spicy food.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.