Best 1731 quotes in «used quotes» category

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

People love what they're used to, I guess." "No." You shook your head. "People should love what needs loving. That way they can save it.

People talk to you and they try to convince you that they like what they do just because it sucks less than what they used to do... which sucked a lot.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

People used to always talk down to me, like, "Oh, you're so young," but now I recognize that my age is an advantage; there's a lot more I can do.

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it.

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other non-standard measures the Fed used to bail out the banks early on in the [2008] crisis.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

Reality is not what it used to be.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.

Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

Redken is a brand I've been using since I was a kid, my grandmother introduced it to me, my mother used it, so obviously I was very aware of the brand, so when I heard we were going to meet and potentially do something in the future, I was very excited.

Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

Romanian movies are not made the same as American movies are, only because it's newer there. For instance, cigarettes, over there, are much more prominent, and Americans aren't used to that.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.