Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.

Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.

Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

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.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

Broadway's not what it used to be.

but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to, it was being ignored

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

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

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

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.

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.