Used Quotes · Page 104

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

— Winnie Byanyima

When I was on 'Top Gear' they thought it was funny I used to have a Vauxhall Cavalier convertible.

— Harry Enfield

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

— Vikram Chatwal

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

— N. Scott Momaday

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

— Mika

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

— Casey Kasem

There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can't go there.

— Les Paul

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

— Michael Caine

I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest…

— Elvis Costello

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I…

— Hank Aaron

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until…

— Hillary Clinton

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I'd watched games in the WSL because my son was at Manchester City, and obviously, they have a fantastic facility there, so…

— Phil Neville

As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not…

— Terence Lewis

I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time…

— Seamus Dever

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

— Paulo Coelho

Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known…

— Petr Skrabanek

I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen…

— J. Cole

It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be,…

— Bartolome de las Casas

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are…

— Sheldon Vanauken

I was thinking the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but…

— Anonymous

If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly…

— Wendell Berry

What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has…

— Reza Aslan

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

— Patrick Stump

I can't walk around like I used to, and there's always paparazzi waiting outside the studio.

— Rosalia

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day

— Amy Winehouse

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

— Hoodie Allen

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

— Dai Vernon

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

— Jackie Shroff

I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

— Leon Uris

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

— George Bernard Shaw

I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.

— Giles Coren

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

— Ellen Page

I used to play as a striker in Holland. I grew up as a striker. That's the position I want to play.

— Ryan Babel

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

— Dale Carnegie

I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.

— Zack Greinke

I was in awe of my older brother, but he was also quite a threatening figure - he used to beat me…

— Richard Herring

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

— Norman Lear

I knew from when I was six that music would be my life, and I used to spend most of my time…

— Orianthi