Used Quotes · Page 102

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

— Paul Henderson

It's so busy in London, and I'm used to the countryside, fields, family, the horses and stuff.

— Millie Bright

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years…

— Willie Dixon

When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

— Calvin Johnson

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

— Herbert Lom

My aunt used to say, slow and steady wins the race. She died in a fire.

— Bo

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

— Noah Emmerich

I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends.…

— Kiana Tom

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way…

— Andrew Bogut

It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to…

— Margaret Mead

I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that,…

— Morgan Fairchild

Obviously, the Night's King is clearly a symbol of something very unpleasant in our psyche, and he even raises wights from the…

— Richard Brake

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or…

— Kiri Te Kanawa

I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children!…

— Caitlin Flanagan

I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I…

— Carson Palmer

Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people…

— Douglas Alexander

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that,…

— Meryl Streep

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just…

— John Darnielle

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird I used to do a New…

— Robert Pattinson

Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun…

— David Icke

I don't think we're the screaming femme fatale running away from danger as much as we used to be. I think people…

— Barbara Crampton

It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private…

— William Faulkner

I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their…

— Burt Rutan

I know Italy very well and I know what gets said, written and speculated about there. I'm used to it.

— Stephan Lichtsteiner

As far as penalties are concerned, you have to be used to taking them and you have to be confident.

— Marcel Desailly

I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.

— Mitch Hedberg

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

— Michael Scheuer

I used to watch 'The Honeymooners' and laughed so much I'd fog up the inside of the lenses of my glasses.

— William Hanna

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

— Billy Crystal

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

— Jamie Hewlett

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

— Thomas Jefferson

I do see very quickly a world where the satoshi system is what is used to make payments.

— Francis X. Suarez

I used to be a pretentious little jerk, running around saying 'I'm going to be an awktor.'

— David Hewlett

That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

— Laura Schlessinger

Also, I didn’t trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.

— Richelle Mead

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

— John Hodgman

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

— Janeane Garofalo

“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”

— Amor Towles

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the…

— Paula Rego