Used Quotes

The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the ... everyday.

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to meet someone.

I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

They used to beat me up after Sunday School, I used to get beat up... yeah, that's a nice little thank you from Jesus.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that animation always loses.

I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the only way to get your music heard.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like.

I used to do drugs, but that was way back there.

Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war.

New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.

We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

I was the best man at my younger brother's wedding and at the time part of my roast to him was I appreciated that he's done the only profession that makes me look good, running a used car dealership.

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.