Used Quotations

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

A billion dollars isnt what it used to be.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

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

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.

I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

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

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

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

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.

I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.