Used To Be Quotes

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

I think I'm a bit gruffer than I used to be, and I'm certainly older.

I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

The future just isn't what it used to be

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily.

When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose.

I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.

I used to be really snobby about music. I'm not as snobby as I used to be, though. I have this great bit about not getting mad about music anymore. It just happens when you get older.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

I'm not as much a fan of fashion as I used to be.

Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.

I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.

Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.

I used to be a virgin, but I gave it up because there was no money in it.

I used to be someone.

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.

Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

"Well, we knew it. Women can't sell movies". That's what it used to be like. "Well, this movie did well, but it's a fluke."

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.