Used Quotes

Ladies, apologies, but isn't 'vintage' just used stuff?

I have no idea why my mom picked Bob, and I've never asked her. My name used to get slaughtered all the time by other people. I was 'Desmond' or 'Damon' or 'Demon.' So Bob's cool.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

I used to sing on the school bus everyday.

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.

It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.

As Dennis Green used to say, there really is a time for pay and a time to play. And right now we're in the time for pay. That's just the reality of it.

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used but they'll remember how you made them feel.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

What I wasn't used to was being in front of the camera.

You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern.

Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.

Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.