Used Quotes · Page 109

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

— Abraham Lincoln

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

— Clark Gregg

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

— Michael Scott

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

— Brenda Lee

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

— Billy Campbell

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

— Noah Baumbach

I used to do karate, but then as acting and school got a little more hectic, I stopped.

— Isa Briones

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

— Asne Seierstad

Grilling used to make me nervous, but then I learned to view the fire as just another source of heat, no different…

— Samin Nosrat

Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small…

— Steven Levy

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony…

— Whit Stillman

Saudi Arabia is a very responsible country. For decades, we used our oil policy as responsible economic tool and isolated it from…

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with…

— Joe Morton

I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff…

— Anh Do

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and…

— Billy West

I think Little Nicky was a divergence from the films Adam Sandler was used to doing, and he was taking a risk.…

— Kevin Nealon

Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used…

— Amanda Beard

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.'…

— Dee Dee Myers

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I…

— Cindy Sheehan

He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once…

— Jonathan Maberry

Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things…

— Fran Lebowitz

I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But…

— Joel Stein

I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because…

— Diane von Furstenberg

It's hard to watch people change, but it's even harder to remember who they used to be.

— Wiz Khalifa

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

— Nikola Tesla

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

— Jane Goodall

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

— Michael Gambon

I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

— Paul Walker

Before I got married, I used to start prepping up for Diwali almost a month in advance.

— Amrapali Gupta

Leggings killed velour sweat suits! I used to only wear them until leggings came along.

— Kim Kardashian

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

— Grenville Kleiser

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

— Christopher Monckton

It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed.

— Henri Theil

To get into the process of doing back-to-back films, it takes getting a little used to.

— Akshaye Khanna

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

— Maurice Jarre

Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.

— Lee Majors

I was once so terrified of acting that I used to pretend I was ill to get out of drama.

— Amy Jackson

I think I used to be lower maintenance. I think I'm slowly becoming higher maintenance.

— Alison Brie

I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.

— Steve Stoute