Used Quotes · Page 186

When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car…

— Barry Gardiner

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

— Peggy Lipton

I always get recognised and that always takes me by surprise. Its not something I ever expect or get used to.

— Hugh Dennis

As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in…

— Rana el Kaliouby

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think the networks used to try to program for kids and family.

— Dan Schneider

I think makeup should not be used to disguise you, but just make you more perfected.

— Phaedra Parks

I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad…

— Lauren Cohan

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that…

— Miles Davis

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve…

— Sun Tzu

I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if…

— Liu Wen

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own…

— Thomas Sowell

This is a great time for the 'guerilla marketer.' The days when you used to have to buy expensive TV time and…

— Dave Ramsey

Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you…

— Alveda King

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on…

— Charles Duhigg

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound…

— Bradford Cox

When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly…

— Jim Woodring

I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first…

— Big Sean

Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them…

— Erwin Schrodinger

In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you…

— Evgeny Morozov

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology…

— Leslie Stephen

“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of…

— Thomas Cahill

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind…

— Ray Bradbury

Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on…

— Celia Imrie

We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.

— Chris Ofili

It's not easy being a woman. Especially when you're a part-time one. You never really get used to it.

— Divine

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

— Donald Dunn

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

— Camilla Lackberg

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

— Bruce Springsteen

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by…

— Thomas Kinkade

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

— Patricia Velasquez

I don't like eggs because I couldn't get used to it after not growing up with them.

— Nyjah Huston

I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.

— Biz Markie

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

— Ray Davies

I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring…

— Erich Ludendorff

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

— Cee Lo Green

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

— Ron Silver

I used to be a partier, now I'm an alcoholic. It's all in who's judging you.

— Doug Stanhope

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror

— Barack Obama

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

— Mark Twain