Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine!

Hillary Clinton used the State Department to enrich their family at America's expense.

His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?

How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

I always have these little internal monologues. You'll get used to them.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.

I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

I am going to be using Ronald Reagan's Bible [during swearing-in]. But I'm also going to be using one of our personal Bibles from home; it'll be different than the one I used when I was inaugurated as governor.

I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.