Used Quotes

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.

The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.

The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

Ideas are useless unless used.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.