Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power

I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate.

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

It's cool to have a personal relationship with someone who's your idol. Someone whose music you used to constantly listen to, when you were hoping you could make it one day.

It's definitely hard for me watching myself on screen, it's very uncomfortable, but it's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you get used to it. When I first got out I was like, I can't look at all, it makes me sick to my stomach.

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.

It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

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

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

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.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works, which I reread regularly. I don't hesitate to take up previously used images or even whole scenes.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

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.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman

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

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 bother me when people called me a pussy. But the joke's on them - after all, you are what you eat!

It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.

I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.

I used everything you gave me.