Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

I got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley.' And I said to him I do these narrations for you but you never put me in a film! So he called my bluff and put me in 'Melancholia' and I was thrilled about that.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere.

I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

I had the feeling Edward wasn't the kind of person anyone got used to.

I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there's, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage

I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

I have become that mother I used to dread.

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows, I used to never have any and then I realised big eyebrows are good and now I'm an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.