Used Quotes · Page 82

Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

— Colson Whitehead

I dont have a problem being used, its misused I have a problem with.

— Anonymous

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

— George MacKay

I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.

— David Linley

Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.

— Paula Pell

“a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

When I was young, I used to be very shy but when it came to narrating stories, I used to be very…

— Kunal Kapoor

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

— Shantel VanSanten

I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring -…

— Adam Driver

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but…

— Aaron Douglas

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are…

— Linus Pauling

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got…

— Bill Mumy

Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up…

— Anonymous

We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard,…

— Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to…

— Robin Boyd

In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think that Judaism has been, throughout its history since A.D. 70, a diaspora culture that's all about being a minority. In…

— Mark Kurlansky

[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'…

— Swami Vivekananda

You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so…

— Rodney King

The Iranians are not going to cede any kind of power. They're not going to cede any kind of control. [Hassan] Rouhani…

— Andrea Tantaros

I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was…

— Juergen Teller

It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures…

— Rudy Vallee

You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you." He surveyed her…

— Lisa Kleypas

My mama used to tell us ghost stories in the evening on rainy days.

— Mimi Chakraborty

Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

— Fauja Singh

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before…

— Bernard Manning

I used to think life would be easier to handle. But it is not.

— Ranvir Shorey

I used to set myself little challenges to make the work more interesting.

— Andre Previn

When I was younger I used to volunteer at the Mother Teresa charities in India.

— Laila Rouass

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

— Jonathan Maberry

I used to cramp so much I actually thought it was genetic.

— Blake Bortles

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

— Gene Tierney

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

— David Corn

Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.

— Brother Lawrence

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

— Casey Stengel

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

— Ophelia Lovibond

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

— Cat Deeley