Used Quotes

This is just me. Get used to it.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

I removed the window [tattoo] because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time.

The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.