Used Quotes · Page 126

We used to live in a one-room bedsit in Dudley with an Indian family.

— Lenny Henry

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

— Paul Henderson

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Millie Bright

I didn't used to like fish but now I am into salmon and stuff.

— Emile Smith Rowe

I used to perform stunts that made me stand distinctly among my peers.

— Suniel Shetty

I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.

— Al Pacino

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

— Clarence Clemons

In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also…

— Melissa McCarthy

Yes, the sound of the new V6 engines could have been a little bit better, but it is just one of those…

— Nico Hulkenberg

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people…

— Brad Warner

Some people treat friends like insurance when your benefits get over you are a matured policy so they leave it and buy…

— Chops

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children…

— Ricky Martin

I used to do a lot of pratfalls on stage. And I tell you, when a guy with cerebral palsy falls down…

— Josh Blue

I used to be really snobby about music. I'm not as snobby as I used to be, though. I have this great…

— Kurt Braunohler

I'm a big fan of Brian Wilson. I read that he used to write with his feet in a tin of sand…

— David Essex

After my pregnancy, I had put on 22.5 kilos. I looked like a baby elephant. But I shed it all by working…

— Shilpa Shetty

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and…

— C. S. Lewis

Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective…

— Patrick Lencioni

People assume, because I'm Hef's girlfriend, that I'm a Bunny and I'm a Playmate and I'm a centerfold, but they're different things.…

— Holly Madison

Can't nobody do what Fetty Wap does. So when I go to the studio, it may be four to five hours max,…

— Fetty Wap

My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any…

— Jodi Picoult

Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There's a certain sense of ownership that the fans have over you…The thing is, it's all good. You just have to get…

— Carrie Underwood

On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can't slide on the hard…

— Kiki Bertens

My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

— LIZ

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

— Haruki Murakami

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

— Rick Danko

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

— Kenneth Copeland

Ive never had a perm; I used to have it straightened with a hot comb, back in my 'A Different World' days.

— Kim Wayans

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

— Haruki Murakami

I used to watch 'Death Becomes Her,' and I knew I wanted to become Meryl Streep.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.

— Christopher Gorham

My grandma has got me into my religion because she used to carry me to church every Sunday.

— Darren Bent

In all kinds of ways, I used to be really, really hard on myself.

— Sara Ramirez

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

— Carlos Slim

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

— Ruth St. Denis

“Her body had been in a war and, as in love, it had used every part of itself.”

— Michael Ondaatje

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

— James A. Michener