Used Quotes · Page 447

The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

— Adam Carolla

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

— Susan Glaspell

Back in elementary I used to tell all the girls I was related to Michael Jackson. But as I got older I…

— Quinton Jackson

My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

— Jonny Lang

I used to watch 'SNL' when I was babysitting, after I put the kids to bed. It was the Gilda Radner and…

— Molly Shannon

Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range…

— Zicheng Hong

I used Evernote almost exclusively for researching 'The 4-Hour Body.' I was able to eliminate all of the perpetually open tabs and…

— Anonymous

I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to…

— Nonie Darwish

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used…

— Will Smith

When I first moved to London, I used to pretend to be on the phone. I used to talk about stuff that…

— Jorja Smith

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

— Elbert Hubbard

Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If…

— Sylvester Stallone

In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and…

— Jose Pablo Cantillo

There's always this hump, this 1-week hump where the first-time actors have to get used to the fact that there's a camera…

— Sean Baker

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

— Martin Seligman

Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's…

— Dave McKean

Out of 40,000+ herbs used worldwide, perhaps only 50-60 of them are tonic superherbs. These superherbs should be taken for long periods,…

— David Wolfe

My childhood was full of Salil Chowdhary, R.D. Burman and Madan Mohan sahab. My father used to play with them and I…

— Jeet Gannguli

The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path…

— Barack Obama

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

— Abbie Cornish

We used to play Jet before we go on stage.

— Luke Hemmings

I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people…

— Carl Hart

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

— Ellen DeGeneres

In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community.…

— Sheila Kitzinger

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which…

— Ben Shahn

It used to be cars had cool names: Dart, Hawk, Fury, Cougar, Firebird, Hornet, Mustang, Barracuda. Now we have Elantra, Altima, Acura,…

— George Carlin

your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not…

— Rick Riordan

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away,…

— Clive James

We used to be such prima donnas.

— Gina Schock

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward…

— Steven Adler

Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.

— Henry Mancini

It's always tricky when someone who's not used to it volunteers to be an extra and you want to go, 'Listen, you're…

— Ol Parker

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what…

— Dan Phillips

If you are used to eating well as a child, you will end up probably being quite serious about what you eat…

— Rick Stein

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in…

— Nikki Giovanni