Used Quotes

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn't obey.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

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

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

My grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.

I have never used steroids. Period.

I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.