Used To Be Quotes

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

I used to be a hairdresser.

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman

Diet Coke with lemon - didn't that used to be called Pledge?

I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.

I used to be a partier, now I'm an alcoholic. It's all in who's judging you.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

I used to be a print reporter.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

My favorite part about going to the gym used to be leaving.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.