Used Quotes

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

I used to get down on myself a lot if I missed a shot, and it would just break my focus. But now I stay mentally tough and try to just forget about that play and keep on going.

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California

I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

As an early adopter of the internet, I've changed as the internet has changed, and I regret a lot of the things that I used to believe or used to do.

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.

We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

There are times when you want your privacy, when you don't want the cameras in your face capturing your every move, every tear, every look. But I've gotten used to it.

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.

The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.

There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

Lily Tomlin...I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She's this very unique talent and the way she does things has been a very big influence on me.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.