Used to be Quotes · Page 10

We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know,…

— George Packer

I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that…

— Noam Chomsky

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

— Carrie Fisher

Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several…

— Jerzy Kukuczka

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,…

— Terry Eagleton

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those…

— Cornel West

To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be…

— Robert Anton Wilson

An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

— Edward Bellamy

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside…

— W. C. Fields

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as good as they used to be.

— Anonymous

What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that…

— Jerry Garcia

There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's…

— Bill Maher

Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home…

— Esther Dyson

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in…

— Michel de Certeau

This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the…

— Donald Trump

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is…

— Conan O'Brien

There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who…

— Michael Lewis

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

— James Earl Jones

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and…

— Paul Fussell

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and…

— Ida Tarbell

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

— George Burns

The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to…

— James Iha

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The…

— Deepak Chopra

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been…

— Wendell Berry