Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

I don't like catchphrases either. A current one would be, "Bye, Felicia." It's used so much that we don't even know the origin anymore.

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

I don`t sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it`s getting worse.

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware that [ Michel] Foucault had used the phrase "speaking truth to power." I had thought it was an old Quaker phrase.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking.

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up.

If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

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.

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

If you are not ready to face opposition then you are not ready to be used by God.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.