Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.

I didn't have any clue as to what true marriage meant. I was so used to committing to one thing - music - and then I had to totally commit to a second thing, marriage. I didn't know how to commit to both of them. It was a scary moment for me.

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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 have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.