Used Quotes

When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.

No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

My mum used to say to me, 'you can't have fun all the time,' and I used to say, 'why not?'. Why... can't I have fun all the time?

I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.

I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.

My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, "Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?

In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.

We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.