Used Quotes

Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.