Used Quotes

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.

American influence is not what it used to be.

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

I'm used to people talking about me.

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.