Used Quotes

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

I used to be a print reporter.

I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work.

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

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

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

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

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.