Used Quotes · Page 117

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

— Kim Hyesoon

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

— Edith Wharton

You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

— Jeff Foxworthy

People were used to seeing DX do some of the most off-the-wall, craziest stuff they'd ever seen in their life.

— Billy Gunn

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf…

— Kate Brown

I used to sell candy and ice creams in the street, and I worked in the fields to help my parents.

— Richarlison

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

— William Monahan

You used to be my everything. Now, you're acting like our something was nothing

— Ericson Grey

When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can…

— Hideo Kojima

When I was younger, I used to be the cheater. But I'm not talking about going all the way… I wasn't doing…

— Fergie

When we were first approached with the idea to do videos, we said why not. We used the things that we do…

— Dusty Hill

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped…

— Milton Berle

E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of…

— Caroline Leavitt

When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss…

— Raftaar

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what…

— Joseph Epstein

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die…

— Derek Landy

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something…

— Jane Smiley

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a…

— George Orwell

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take…

— Harold Prince

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still…

— Andy Warhol

Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five…

— Peter Thiel

In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for…

— John Hull

I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I…

— Gene Kelly

I used to cry when I let in a goal. I always thought I was to blame because I was the last…

— Manuel Neuer

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

— Heidi Julavits

Kids used to pick on me because I was quiet, I was an easy target. But I wasn't quiet because I was…

— Megan Thee Stallion

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

— Ferdinand Mount

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

— Cheryl Strayed

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

— John Prine

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

— Paula Cole

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

— David Lynch

We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.

— Rhianna Pratchett

I used to think I wouldn't be happy being anything but a musician.

— JP Saxe

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

— Tadashi Yanai

I don't sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it's getting worse.

— Bing Crosby

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

— Tara Lipinski

You know, technology caught up with precisely what was wrong with the way that I used food.

— John Popper

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

— Malala Yousafzai

I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training

— Lionel Messi