Used Quotes

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

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

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscrimately.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it. When will I be used to it? In 10 years? In 20 years?

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

I used alcohol for my panic attacks, to manage stressors.

I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.