Used Quotes

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

My schedule has not calmed down, but I'm definitely not so devastated as I used to be. Definitely cooler now. A lot of blessings have fallen into my lap, and I'm very thankful to receive all of them.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are those who spend their time talking about the sins of others.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.

I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.

Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe…

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years

I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.

Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.

Talents used are talents multiplied.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke, Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain

Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails

A million dollars isn't what it used to be.

I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.