Used Quotes

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

Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.

I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

The future is not what it used to be.

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way.

I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.

My teachers used to tell me you need to learn to adjust to fit the situation. Don't just do what you've always done because it might not always work.

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.

Now little kids come to my front door and give me cookies. You see that smile on their face, they're looking at me the same way I used to look at Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart, and that's pretty cool.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

The last thing I want to do is hurt the club's chances of winning. I'm used to playing the game a certain way and at a certain level. When I can no longer do that, I'll quit.

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

My hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say, walk softly, talk softly but carry a big stick.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.

Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.