Used Quotes · Page 69

A billion dollars isnt what it used to be.

— Nelson Bunker Hunt

You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister…

— Elizabeth Strout

Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!

— William C. Brown

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

— Marge Schott

I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.

— David Beckham

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

— Eminem

The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the…

— Corinne Heline

Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state…

— Jayne Meadows

A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively,…

— Tahl Raz

It's funny, because earlier, I used to have questions about how you coped with the seniors in the team, and now I…

— Smriti Mandhana

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I…

— J. K. Rowling

The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a…

— Arundhati Roy

I used to have a fear of singing. It was something I never really liked very much.

— Stacy Martin

I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible,…

— Gloria Steinem

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

— Peter Singer

Before my parents came to England from Calcutta in the 1970s, they used to go to games at Eden Gardens.

— Isa Guha

I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from…

— J. R. Moehringer

Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.…

— Randall Balmer

The base of raita is traditionally unstrained whole-milk yogurt, but I like to break away from convention and reach for whatever fermented…

— Sohla El-Waylly

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!'…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I used to be an angry person.

— Iman Shumpert

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before…

— John O'Donohue

I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have…

— Jason Silva

I used to think, 'Oh, I can fix him. I can be his therapist. I can be what he needs.' But what…

— Nicole Johnson

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All…

— Kevin Barry

My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go…

— Sylvia Plath

I used to listen to Keith Urban and Johnny Cash and stuff.

— Cody Simpson

We used to go to Hawaii every year and loved it!

— Rev. Run

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept…

— Lisa See

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used…

— Rudy Giuliani

To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music…

— Andrea Corr

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

— Kevin Allen

I used to cut school sometimes and record songs.

— Bryson Tiller

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis,…

— B. B. King

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

— P. J. O'Rourke

My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to…

— Jan Frazier

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of…

— Charles Babbage

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation…

— Janet Yellen