Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

I went to tranny bars and kind of got used to being around that and then getting dressed up.

I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.

Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool.

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Ladies, apologies, but isn't 'vintage' just used stuff?

Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

Leggings killed velour sweat suits! I used to only wear them until leggings came along.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Life is not fair get used to used to it

Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!

Linkedin is for people you know. Facebook is for people you used to know. Twitter is for people you want to know.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.