Used Quotes

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

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

It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it.

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.

I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!

I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

I used to teach dance lessons.