Used Quotes

I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

Litigation is a tool used by negotiators.

Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

Knowledge is not power unless it is used.

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

There is so much power in being able to look comfortable in a conference room, and I’m not sure dudes in suits are used to seeing women do that.

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Besides, you think I'm not used to hurting? For me, it's home sweet home, my brother.

My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

I was the worst, most sickly kid of all - 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It’d be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

You have brought the best things in my life. I used to be so unhappy before but now I am filled with joy and peace. Thank you for bringing so many good things into my life.

The new celebrity thing is going to take some time to get used to because I really am not used to that!

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

Linkedin is for people you know. Facebook is for people you used to know. Twitter is for people you want to know.

The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the world to me, and I didn't feel this was the way it ought to be used.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.

My grandmother used to say, "Sometimes the loudest person in the room doesn't know what they're talking about." Or isn't secure enough in his or her own views to be able to listen to others.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.