Used Quotes · Page 454

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

— Rachel Bloom

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to…

— Banksy

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

— Glen Campbell

I was not used to criticism.

— Terry Bradshaw

When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion,…

— Jackie Stewart

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in…

— Joseph Heller

European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger…

— Petra Kelly

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

— Emily Deschanel

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

— Christopher Eccleston

A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today…

— Malcolm X

It took me a while to get used to moving and jumping in the sand. It takes a lot more effort in…

— Brooke Sweat

Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.

— Mason Cooley

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

— Miguel de Icaza

After two solid weeks of waking up in Damen's bed, wrapped in Damen's arms, you'd think I'd have grown used to it…

— Alyson Noel

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

— Jennifer Estep

Used it, used it often, great tool. We should never have removed stop-and-frisk.

— Eric Adams

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

— Thomas Paine

[Randy white] was such a huge part of my foundation and who I would become in God - from covering me -…

— Paula White

I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the…

— Martha Ronk

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so…

— Walt Disney

Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although…

— Rhianna Pratchett

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the…

— Anthony Bourdain

I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why…

— Ridley Scott

I used to spend summers with my Granma in Louisiana; Crowley, LA.

— Pimp C

I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen,…

— Mark Helprin

I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you…

— Bill Lawrence

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly…

— Mark Kelly

you gotta think it’s a waste of—” “Ray!” I glanced around, but there was nobody within earshot. “Well, excuse me if I’m…

— Karen Chance

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

— Jerry Coleman

You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

— John Collison

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so…

— Orson Scott Card

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

— Syd Barrett

People want to leave their homes but they can't go on vacation as much as they used to. So, getting out of…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always…

— Theodora Goss

I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't…

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself…

— Albert Ellis

Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years…

— Brent Smith

In a crisis, stocks of financial companies are great investments, because the tide is bound to turn. Massive losses on bad loans…

— Seth Klarman