Used Quotes

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of place. It's really fun to perform there.

We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography

Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Pink champagne -- that's the kind of life we've both been used to. It might be a little difficult to -- do you like beer?

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.

We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.