Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

I'll put you in a jar on my shelf for a cold, rainy day when I need you the most.

One of my astronomy managers used to tell me that liquid nitrogen was harmless and was just liquid air. He would pour it onto his bare hands to demonstrate how safe he thought it was. I was later to realize that incompetence was a feature of high altitude astronomy.

There is no harm in being used. We all use one another daily. But were you misused by me? I can think of no one alive who could have performed better under the demands of your fate.

She was all-out, delighted enthusiasm, like a stupid, bubbling stream, and the guy would just cup that in his hands for the hell of it, splash his face with it, and drop the leftovers back into the river.

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

Your half empty.. A broken glass, I love you can sound so beautiful Until you stop to listen That terrible background noise, you have no idea how bad I want to hold you But I’m afraid I’ll cut my hand.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.

Used" is such an odd word, so much stranger than "second-hand." A prefix for condoms, and there's a certain squalor attached to the idea of reusing those.

You are a good counter... T-Man (......You used the F word 31 times.......)

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

A billion dollars isnt what it used to be.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

A life well used procures a happy death.

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.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

...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.