Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

I got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley.' And I said to him I do these narrations for you but you never put me in a film! So he called my bluff and put me in 'Melancholia' and I was thrilled about that.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere.

I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident.

I had the feeling Edward wasn't the kind of person anyone got used to.

I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there's, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage

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

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows, I used to never have any and then I realised big eyebrows are good and now I'm an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

I have never used steroids. Never.

I have never used steroids. Period.

I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I haven`t used that word since I was 7 years old. I don`t understand Donald Trump.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

I have used, you know, marijuana ... since Ive been in the league.

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.