Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That.... I mean, it's....." "Awesome?Yeah,I Know

A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.

A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, "You used trickery." "Yes, I did," he admitted. "Are you angry with me?" She laughed again. "I don't get angry. I get even." Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.

Ahh, you’re a man used to getting his own way.” “Always,” he said in a husky growl.

Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

A life well used procures a happy death.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

Also, I didn’t trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

American influence is not what it used to be.

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.

A million dollars isn't what it used to be.

An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.

And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.

And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.

Amy sat back and grinned. "You just smiled." That was definitely something else she could get used to. Of course, he frowned immediately. "I smile.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

...and then she glared at me, the same glare my stepmother used to give me when I gave her the Nazi salute. That woman was so touchy about her resemblance to Hitler.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.

anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

anyway. Leo said, I hope you've got your worksheet, 'cause I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that? Somebody draw on my face again?

A potent poison becomes the best drug on proper administration. On the contrary, even the best drug becomes a potent poison if used badly