Used Quotations | Page 6

The things you used to own, now they own you.

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.

There was a time when country never used to do videos.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

I have two skateboards, but I don't get to use them much. I have a snowboard, which I've never used.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

I never used needles, but I was into heroin, cocaine - those are the things I'll never touch again.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't,

Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.

The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.

Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

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

The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.

I haven`t used that word since I was 7 years old. I don`t understand Donald Trump.

Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

The hell what you USED to do! It's what you're doing NOW and what you're GOING to do.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

I just can't get used to life.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time.

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

There's not as much money in Washington as they're used to be!

I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

I used to be a conservative...

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

I used to read comics when I was a kid.

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many people that it has acted as a sort of contraceptive on the ability to see.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.