Used Quotes

I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.