Used Quotes

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

The cybermen are good monsters, I think. My earliest memories are of the cybermen from when I used to watch when I was younger. It's nice to have them back.

My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman.

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

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

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.