Used Quotes

I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

I used to have a road-rage issue.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

When the boys at school found out I had a potentially fatal peanut allergy, they used to hold me up against a wall and play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels!

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

When I was younger, I used to put honey and Coca-Cola and all that stuff on my body and just fry in the sun. But I think we all know how bad that is for you.

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).

I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

God wants to use us as He used His own Son

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

I've had to do a lot of growing quickly for my career and owning that I'm the boss. I used to play every single one of the roles and now I have to remember that I'm the boss.

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.

Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.