Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.

I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.

I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.

I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

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

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

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.

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

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

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

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 amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

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

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

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

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

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