Used Quotes

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace.

Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.

Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.

I used to hate being recognised.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one

This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.