Used Quotes · Page 191

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman

People in Los Angeles are more used to acting silly than other people.

— Ken Hakuta

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

— Paul Sparks

I'm used to people being irritated by me. I'm like, girl, whatever. Be irritated. I'm gonna live my dream.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I used to run home after the pool closed in the summer to watch 'Newhart.'

— Cole Escola

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

— Bruce Cockburn

I'm not a competitor by nature, and I'm certainly not used to being evaluated.

— Trixie Mattel

I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song.…

— Damien Hirst

As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to…

— Ricki-Lee Coulter

Recreations are not a trend that I started; In the 90s and 2000s we used to have remakes/remixes where the tracks were…

— Tanishk Bagchi

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both…

— Ernst Thalmann

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear…

— Al Gore

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

— Howard Gossage

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think…

— Jake Lloyd

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club…

— Ben Shapiro

There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come…

— Charles Spurgeon

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of…

— Paulo Coelho

When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they…

— Deborah Moggach

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used…

— Ian Bremmer

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean,…

— Gus Van Sant

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because…

— Morris Gleitzman

In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but…

— Gerald Weinberg

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our…

— Florence Griffith Joyner

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

— Crystal Gayle

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

— Mohit Chauhan

I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident.

— Rita Rudner

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

— Michael Clarke Duncan

You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

— Mireille Enos

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

— Peter Steele

My father has a great voice. My father used to sing... just sing.

— Marvin Gaye

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

— Youssou N'Dour

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

— Barbara Tuchman

I used to wear so much makeup and be beat, and that would get me clocked, so then I'd wear less makeup.

— Angelica Ross

“It's a lonely life, but you're used to it now, aren't you?”

— Ray Bradbury

I used to love villas when the kids were small but now I like hotels.

— Karren Brady

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I'm like a shooting star, I've come so far I can't go back to where I used to be

— Anonymous

I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.

— Al Roker

I'm used to putting so many things aside to be able to compete.

— Garbine Muguruza