Using Quotes
2654 quotes by 2126 authors
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I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not…
— Steven Wright
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth."…
— Lauren Child
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This book was written using 100% recycled words.
— Terry Pratchett
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I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and…
— Benjamin Carson
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I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,…
— Anne Rice
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Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I…
— William P. Young
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To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using…
— Alexander Shulgin
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Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging…
— Alexander Shulgin
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My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy…
— Augusten Burroughs
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A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a…
— Maurice Blanchot
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Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another,…
— Ray Bradbury
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But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe…
— Robert Fulghum
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Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.
— Maggie O'Farrell
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While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
— Margaret Atwood
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By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.
— Woody Allen
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Well, usually when a person shakes their head,†said McGonagall coldly, “they mean ‘no.’ So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using…
— Charles Dickens
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So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh...…
— Yann Martel
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the…
— Dalai Lama
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