Used Quotes · Page 197

My teachers used to point to the jail across the street and say that's where my fists would land me.

— Matt Serra

I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me.

— YoungBoy Never Broke Again

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

— Elizabeth Dole

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

— Amy Ridenour

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

— Boyd Holbrook

When I got to the Rams, Cleveland Gary never talked to me. I could have used some help.

— Jerome Bettis

I used to spend hours reading the Sunday papers, but then I had 900 children so I don't any more.

— Claudia Winkleman

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

— Bill Ayers

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me,…

— Jason Mraz

I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it…

— Dave Davies

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just…

— Waverley Root

The pressure from within used to have an impact on my behaviour. If games had gone badly, I would take things home…

— Jamie Carragher

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and…

— Roger Waters

The re-use of a Dragon capsule is yet another example of how SpaceX uses cargo flights to prove out new technologies that…

— Bruce Pittman

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so…

— Charles Spurgeon

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better,…

— Joe Abercrombie

Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today…

— Francis Schaeffer

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. Testing was used in advertising decades ago. The internet has made testing…

— David Ogilvy

We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he…

— Patti Smith

People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know,…

— Faith Evans

I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in…

— D. A. Carson

I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used…

— Beth Ditto

You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be

— Orrin Woodward

I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.

— Chris Stapleton

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

— Paul Valery

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

— Abbi Glines

I used to do a stunt in almost every movie. When I became an executive, all the insurance guys freaked out.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I like to score goals, as, back in the day, I was used to scoring goals.

— Georginio Wijnaldum

I used to think nobody can beat me, and then Tim Sylvia beat me twice.

— Andrei Arlovski

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

— Yann Martel

Unfortunately, I don't do as much upside-down flying as I used to.

— Jared Isaacman

I used to have a gym in the house. I thought that was a fantastic luxury.

— Lyor Cohen

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

— Margaret Atwood

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

— Aldous Huxley

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

— Wally Lamb

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

— Tommy Chong