Used to be Quotes

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.

— W. C. Fields

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

— Terry Bradshaw

The future is not what it used to be.

— Yogi Berra

I used to be a wicked disco guy.

— Bill O'Reilly

I used to be a conservative.

— Jeb Bush

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

— Steven Wright

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Marvin Gaye

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

— Martina Navratilova

I think I'm a bit gruffer than I used to be, and I'm certainly older.

— Ian Mckellen

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

— Joan Didion

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

— Donald Miller

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

— Carrie Fisher

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

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just…

— Waverley Root

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used…

— Gloria Steinem

I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have…

— Johan Santana

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But…

— Andy Rooney

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

— Helen Levitt

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven…

— Patrick Cockburn

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a…

— Bob Saget

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10…

— Padgett Powell

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still…

— Hanna Rosin

Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university.…

— Tom DeLay

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find…

— Pete Seeger

Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that.…

— Wim Wenders

There are some wonderful parts in the movie [Loulou] where Loulou used to be a dancer and a cabaret. To see her…

— Boti Bliss

I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I…

— Bethany Mota

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

— Ellen McLaughlin

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like…

— David Grossman

I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so…

— Verne Troyer

Hey, folks, look at all the damage that Bill Clinton has done to feminism. First, oral sex is not sex now. You…

— Rush Limbaugh

I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and…

— John Lennon

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

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

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

— Lawrence Solomon