Used Quotes

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

I used to work the graveyard shift.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.

The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.

I used to go with solid blue, but recently I've found that a mix of red and green is a better fit for my personality.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

Anytime God wanted to reach people he always used people to do it. So, anytime the Holy Spirit wants to reach other people, it is always through people.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to

I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.