Used Quotes · Page 199

When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

— Vince Staples

I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

— Elizabeth Taylor

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

— Jeanne Birdsall

I think as queer people, we were very used to accommodating.

— Bowen Yang

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as good as they used to be.

— Anonymous

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a…

— Carla Gugino

Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.

— Eric Garcetti

I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees.

— Scott Adams

I am/was bodybuilder, and so often, I feel like that might hinder my castability, because people aren't so used to seeing bodies…

— Katy O'Brian

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and…

— Alison Goldfrapp

I started running because my neighbour, Patrick Sang, was an athlete and I wanted to be just like him. Patrick came from…

— Eliud Kipchoge

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say)…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But…

— Nicole Krauss

Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best…

— Bernard Jensen

I have been vociferous against government on things like beef. I used to eat beef, but I've stopped. That doesn't mean others…

— Kamal Haasan

The last thing I want to do is hurt the club's chances of winning. I'm used to playing the game a certain…

— Chipper Jones

The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle…

— David O. McKay

It just never comes across as a quality you want in a president that you're sitting in a room. It's almost as…

— Stuart Stevens

Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and…

— Stephen King

There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats.…

— Johnny Depp

Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did…

— Robert Pattinson

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go…

— Heather Brooke

For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than…

— David Baddiel

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat…

— John Green

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

— Jodi Picoult

I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.

— Sam Smith

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

— Isaac Asimov

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

— Biz Stone

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

— Jerry Dammers

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

— Richard Hamming

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

— Andy Dick

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

— Marion Woodman

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

— Phyllis Diller

“well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone”

— Margaret Thatcher

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

— Tallulah Bankhead

I'm used to performing. I'm comfortable in front of people. I'm never the one who's fighting for attention, but I've always been…

— Anjelah Johnson

President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a…

— Hillary Clinton

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue…

— Elizabeth Bowen

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you…

— Jacques Pepin

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I…

— Penelope Keith