Used Quotes · Page 690

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

— Harry James

I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people,…

— Robert Scheer

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It…

— Craig Raine

and love is a word used too much and much too soon.

— Charles Bukowski

In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus…

— Joseph Sobran

As a teenager, I used to travel everywhere with my guitar. I appreciated the fact it was with me, but it was…

— Greg Wise

If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that…

— Joan Didion

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

— Danai Gurira

Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember?I used to remember...but I forgot!

— Merrit Malloy

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment…

— Ruth Rendell

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

— Jamaica Kincaid

As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that…

— George Meyer

'Scary Movie' was a different type of comedy than I'm used to. I've mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who…

— Ashley Tisdale

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

— Anton Chekhov

When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make…

— Pope Benedict XVI

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I used the Internet to keep really close contact with my fans. I think that one thing I brought over the ocean…

— Stella Soleil

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both…

— Ernst Thalmann

I just play the game. I'm used to trash talking.

— Jamal Murray

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush.

— Juno Temple

To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to…

— Rigoberta Menchu

I used to do the whole baggy, hard-core, I'm-a-boy look. Then I went through a preppy phase.

— Brittney Griner

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.'…

— Richard Dawkins

My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.

— Shannon Hale