Used Quotations | Page 7

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!

Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.

I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.

I used to love hand raising.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.

When I was young I used to listen to everything.

I used to vote Democrat.

You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. Its shocking.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

I think I'm a bit gruffer than I used to be, and I'm certainly older.

A million dollars isn't what it used to be.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

I've never gotten used to winter and never will.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

I’m so used to being misunderstood,

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

Every time I go out to the mound, I think about where I come from and what I used to have.

The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

I used to stand on the Kop when I was here in 1969. The atmosphere and passion on the pitch as well as the terraces was intoxicating and Liverpool became part of me from that day on.

He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it...

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.

I only used my whole life one perfume: and it's Cartier's Le Must.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that Im completely used to it, and Ive come to see it as a term of endearment.

Diet Coke with lemon - didn't that used to be called Pledge?

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Not that I was ever an asshole but I used to be much more of a bulldozer.

I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.

She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade...

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.

I love the 80s. I always used to watch that VH1 show, I Love the 80s, nonstop. I love the 80s, everything about it, the clothes, the music. Especially the music. The music is so happy. It's great.

When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.

Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

I used my pants to illustrate.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

So I can say I used to have a waist.

Romanian movies are not made the same as American movies are, only because it's newer there. For instance, cigarettes, over there, are much more prominent, and Americans aren't used to that.

I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.

For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

When President Obama in 2011 used military power against the Qaddafi regime in Libya, he did not even notify Congress. A few in Congress mumbled, but did nothing.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.