Used Quotes · Page 61

I used to sing all the time. But I couldn't imagine getting paid for it.

— Anne Murray

When I was 10, I had dyed red hair, and I used to paint my nails - I think my mum secretly…

— Yungblud

I used to walk miles to make a single phone call. Look how things have changed today.

— Deepti Naval

High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

— Doug Stanhope

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

— Milton Berle

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

— Tillie Olsen

I do feel sorry for my younger brother, he used to field a lot.

— Alastair Cook

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

— Alexis Knapp

I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I…

— Drake

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion,…

— Jose Canseco

I really used to like TVMaxwell, which is a classic, amazing, super-underrated comedy channel. And Cyndago was great.

— Finn Wolfhard

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at…

— Gary Shteyngart

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more…

— Rohinton Mistry

The same sports sayings seem to be used over and over again. If you have your own favorite sport saying and would…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

People always used to ask me 'What makes a celebrity?' and I used to say: 'Being asked to comment mostly on things…

— Arlene Phillips

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so…

— Malcolm X

Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used…

— Colin Wilson

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions…

— James Surowiecki

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,” she explained.…

— Neil Gaiman

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of…

— John Hurt

The thing about all these charities is that who sees where the money goes? I don't and you don't. For all I…

— Zach Braff

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to…

— Umberto Eco

I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo…

— Sonia Braga

I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our…

— Shane Carruth

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

— Jane Lynch

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

— Christopher Monckton

My pictures of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Boy in Flanders' are being used as school lessons.

— Jackie Coogan

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

— Will Oldham

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

— Kenneth Rogoff

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

— Daniel Craig

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

— Peter Frampton

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

— Damien Hirst

I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.

— Adam Scott

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

— Dick Gregory

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

— Mason Cooley

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

— David Brenner

I used to record 'Futurama' episodes on my cassette player and play it to help me go to sleep.

— Jermaine Fowler

I was bullied as a child and used humor to rise above it.

— Vermin Supreme

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

— Richard A. Falk