Used Quotes

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.