Used Quotes

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively.

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.