Used to be Quotes · Page 2

Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking

— Madonna Ciccone

I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."

— Tony Robbins

Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

— Marvin Gaye

I used to be a conservative.

— Jeb Bush

A billion dollars isnt what it used to be.

— Nelson Bunker Hunt

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

— Pete Sampras

A million dollars isn't what it used to be.

— Howard Hughes

My heroes used to be cowboys.

— David Foreman

I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.

— Michael Gambon

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

— Ann Patchett

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

— John Mayer

You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

— Jeff Foxworthy

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

— Bill Bruford

I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate.

— Seungri

Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.

— Gail Dines

Not that I was ever an asshole but I used to be much more of a bulldozer.

— Janeane Garofalo

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

— Wendell Berry

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

— Frankie Boyle

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing…

— Craig Johnston

There's a reason why at most major universities and colleges the female-male enrollment is so out of whack. Thirty-five percent male versus…

— Rush Limbaugh

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City…

— Richard Bayan

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to…

— Claire McCaskill

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose…

— John Stossel

The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to…

— Bob Beckel

I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it…

— Richard Armitage

The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in…

— Paul Saffo

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get…

— Tony Harrison

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such…

— Kourtney Kardashian

As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and…

— Ha-Joon Chang

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a…

— Norman Mailer

For me, film has been good because I'm able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in…

— William Monahan

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is…

— Ellen McLaughlin

Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that…

— Desmond Tutu

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most…

— Bobby Fischer

There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as…

— J. D. Daniels

Coal used to be a very dirty fuel but coal has become cleaner and cleaner over the decades. Clean coal now is…

— Lawrence Solomon

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand…

— Bethenny Frankel

The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware…

— Louis C. K

I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children.…

— Elie Wiesel