Used Quotes
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont
If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place you once stood. I feel there is always something quite melancholic about a photograph.
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.
I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.
A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren't aware of it.
In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.
But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.
A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.
I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
