Used To Be Quotes

There are some nasty, nasty incidents taking place in the world, but [it's] much better than it used to be.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

Well, I hope you like it here, Leo. It used to be .......really nice.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I used to be a great blues singer.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.

North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.

I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.

I used to be a free spirit.

I'm not as snarky as I used to be.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

I'm the same boy I used to be.

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one

How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University

I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

The future isn't what is used to be.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?

I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.

I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

I never thought that alcohol could ease the notion of the sadness, Now what used to be a happy home done turned into some bad sh!t

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.