Used Quotes · Page 185

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

— Dani Shapiro

Getting to see new places, their culture, and getting away from what I am used to is so rewarding.

— Jeffree Star

People love to judge, get used to it and stop taking it personally.

— Kathryn Budig

If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I used to sing SWV's 'Weak' every day when people would ask me to sing.

— Justine Skye

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I'm used to being an actor. Being a director is a lot more work.

— Nick Searcy

I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was…

— John Fugelsang

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front…

— Joel Edgerton

the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death…

— Brad Warner

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers…

— Stefon Harris

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However,…

— Albert Camus

When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd…

— Sue Townsend

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been…

— Kenneth Oppel

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But…

— Andy Rooney

(Lake) Lanier is a good fishing lake. Everybody tells me I put my dock on the best fishing hole in the lake.…

— Luke Appling

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everybody would be better off if they could buy housing for only, let's say, a carrying charge of one-quarter of their income.…

— Michael Hudson

Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause…

— Ellie Goulding

After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies…

— Dwight Yoakam

In China the largest denomination bill they have is 100 yen, and that's maybe $7. So here you have a whole economy…

— Michael Hudson

Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately,…

— George Leef

I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.

— Buddy Hackett

Most disabled people get used to a certain level of abuse.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Want to know the Duggar family motto? 'Buy used, and save the difference.'

— Jim Bob Duggar

I think there's a bargain in every garage sale - not as much as there used to be, but they're still there.

— Judith Miller

I used to have a pet crawfish, so my friend made a mold of its claws and bronzed a key chain for…

— Betsy Brandt

A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.

— Dan Levy

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

— Anton Corbijn

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

— Elizabeth Kenny

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

— Chuck Klosterman

Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.

— Simon Cowell

Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.

— Paul Harvey

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

— Anonymous

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are ‘acceptable crimes’ when used for the animal cause,

— Alex Pacheco

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.

— Ambrose Bierce

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

— Leonard Cohen

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

— Theo Rossi