Used To Be Quotes

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

I used to be a dusty little child.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.

I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

You have brought the best things in my life. I used to be so unhappy before but now I am filled with joy and peace. Thank you for bringing so many good things into my life.

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

I believe in the country America used to be.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.

A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be

My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be

I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.