Used Quotes · Page 165

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

— Carol Vorderman

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

— Pamela Anderson

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

— Alexei Sayle

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

— Mother Teresa

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

— Regina Brett

I used to eat out at least five times a week, sometimes more.

— Randi Zuckerberg

I haven't used that word since I was 7 years old. I don't understand Donald Trump.

— Greg Gutfeld

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

— Joel Kinnaman

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to…

— Michael Biehn

I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived…

— Sophie Hannah

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

— Billy Strayhorn

I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists…

— Rick Ross

I think all the fight stuff. I'm cut out for that. I used to wrestle in high school so I really love…

— Jaimie Alexander

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

— Bob Woodward

I used to produce this band, Dragons of Zynth. There's something about their live shows, which, to me, is ultimate. I mean,…

— Andrew Wyatt

I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to…

— Emraan Hashmi

According to the nanny who sold her story, Victoria used to scream at her husband: I gave up my music for you.…

— Ian O'Doherty

I work barefooted on balance plates. I do explosive squats on balance surfaces that your body has to use muscles it's not…

— Troy Polamalu

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on…

— Henry David Thoreau

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays…

— Larry Elder

Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story…

— Afua Cooper

We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and…

— Anthony Trollope

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a…

— Willie Mays

My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based…

— Jim Brown

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

— Pope John Paul II

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

— Rosanna Arquette

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

— Gregory Maguire

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

— Merrill Markoe

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a…

— Joan Rivers

When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.

— Jimy Williams

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus…

— Dennis Franz

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

— Martina Navratilova

It takes a while to condition people to a different product, as opposed to what they're used to seeing.

— Beth Phoenix

I have been a VJ in New York before. I used to host shows on local television there.

— Shibani Dandekar

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

— Natalie Wood

My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma.

— Gary Mule Deer

My dad used to tell me 'opinions are like assholes, everybody has one'

— Miley Cyrus

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

— Kimora Lee Simmons

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

— Jack Kingston

When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

— Aaron Paul