Used Quotes

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train."

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

I used my pants to illustrate.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro. It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.