Used Quotes

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

I used to hate the sound of my voice.

I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.

E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas!

I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.

I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me.

It's weird. I guess I got so used to [g-strings] when I was really young that I just couldn't stand it anymore.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

I never get used to the response that people have toward me.

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

I used to work at a puppy nursery.

When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive. I'm on alert, and I can be fresh.

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.