Used Quotes

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking.

I have two skateboards, but I don't get to use them much. I have a snowboard, which I've never used.

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.

There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

My colleagues thought I was an embarrassment because I was talking about mind, body, spirit. So I was called a quack. I was called a fraud, which I initially resented, but then I got used to it.

Decluttering tip: Ask yourself do I need this? How long has it been since I used this? Do I need so many?

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Basketball used to be my top priority.

I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other people.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

I don’t know what’s happened to you. You used to be such a nice girl. Now you’ve gone all stabby and whatnot.

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.