Used Quotes

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.