Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

I've never felt invincible. I've never used that word to describe me ever.

I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

I've used the laws of the country to my advantage.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.

I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.

I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

I was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they always put music in it, which is why I tend to have popular melodies over harder beats.

I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.