Used Quotes

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.

When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.

No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians.

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.