Used Quotes

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

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

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.

I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.