Used famous quotes

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Courage #Kindness #Used

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
-- Adam Carolla

#Republican #Used #Democrat

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
-- Adam Garcia

#Girl #Stuff #Used

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
-- Adolf Galland

#Achievement #Stronger #Used

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
-- Adolf Galland

#Fifty #Fighter #Used

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it
-- Adrian Grenier

#Used

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
-- Agnes Martin

#Artist #May #Used

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
-- Agnes Martin

#Thinking #Used

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.
-- Aidan Quinn

#Phones #Used #Rings

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
-- Alain Resnais

#Technique #Film #Used

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
-- Alan Bennett

#May #Mood #Used

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.
-- Alan Wolfe

#Moving #Issues #Used

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
-- Alastair Campbell

#Routine #Life Is #Used

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
-- Albert Brooks

#Tape #Used #Screenplays

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
-- Albert Camus

#Lying #Three #Used

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
-- Albert Ellis

#People #Referrals #Used

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
-- Albert Ellis

#Behavior #Used #Therapists

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.
-- Alberto Fujimori

#Agreement #Argument #Used

I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.
-- Alda Merini

#Wind #Used #Determine

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Thinking #Looks #Used

I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Inspirational #Player #Used

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.
-- Alex Meraz

#Auditions #Used #Thrown

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

#People #Telephones #Used

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.
-- Alexander Hanson

#Used #Boxes

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
-- Alexander John Ellis

#Used #Cents

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Flower #Mood #Used

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
-- Alexander Theroux

#Book #Use #Used

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
-- Alexander Woollcott

#Mind #Bernard Shaw #Used

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Used #Needed

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Dream #Used #Lost

I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.
-- Alexandra Potter

#Ideas #Used

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Alive #Lawyer #Used

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.
-- Alexis Knapp

#Serenity #Chaos #Used

I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
-- Alfred Adler

#Grateful #Ideas #Used

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Justice #Citizens #Used

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
-- Alyssa Milano

#Sleep #Earthquakes #Used

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
-- Amor Towles

#Father #Used #Old Time

This is just me. Get used to it.
-- Amy Harmon

#Used

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.
-- Amy Klobuchar

#Mother #Used

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day
-- Amy Winehouse

#Age #Used #Collections

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
-- Anais Nin

#Giving #Body #Used

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
-- Andre Maurois

#Insulting #May #Used

We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.
-- Andrew Goodman

#Book #Lists #Used

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
-- Andrew Mason

#Talking #Strange #Used

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
-- Andrew Rannells

#Community #Used #Theater

God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.
-- Andy Mineo

#Used #Planets #Be Careful

I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.
-- Andy Roddick

#My Birthday #Used #Nosebleeds

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
-- Andy Stanley

#Action #Speak #Used

Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.
-- Angela Johnson

#Heart #Used #Findings

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
-- Angela Merici

#Kind #Used #Should

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
-- Anita Baker

#Home #Funeral #Used

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.
-- Annalena McAfee

#Father #Radio #Used

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.
-- Anne Fortier

#Reason #Instinct #Used

When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.
-- Anne Lamott

#Girl #Jealous #Used

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
-- Anne Stevenson

#Writing #Meditation #Used

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
-- Anthony de Mello

#Used #Description #Distortion

Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.
-- Anthony Gregory

#Today #Used #States

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.
-- Anton Corbijn

#Each Day #Used

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.
-- Aphex Twin

#Names #Stuff #Used

I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.
-- Arjun Rampal

#Athlete #Used #Active

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.
-- Arne Duncan

#College #Pay #Used

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Building #Architect #Used

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Optimism #Pessimism #Used

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Teaching #Used #Teach

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

#Arrogant #Used

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Marriage #Used #Middle

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Horse #Used #Trojans

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Kind #Habit #Used

I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.
-- ASAP Rocky

#Soho #Used #Stores

I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

#World #Wonderful #Used

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
-- Audre Lorde

#Accepting #Used

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
-- August Wilson

#Papa #Used

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Listening #World #Used

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.
-- Aurora Aksnes

#Talking #Singing #Used

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror
-- Barack Obama

#Target #Bombs #Used

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#World #Used #Determine

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
-- Barbara Sher

#Acceptance #Violin #Used

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
-- Barbara Sher

#Music #Violin #Used

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
-- Barbara Tuchman

#Seductive #Used #Dangerous

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
-- Barbara Walters

#Oysters #Used #Found

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
-- Barry McGuire

#Mean #Used #Come Up

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
-- Bear Bryant

#Coaching #Bulls #Used

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
-- Bear Bryant

#Believe #Player #Used

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.
-- Ben Affleck

#Phrases #Used #Wells

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
-- Ben Elton

#Silly #Wish #Used

I used to dance, but now I only move.
-- Ben Vereen

#Moving #Used

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.
-- Ben Vereen

#Moving #Towns #Used

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Virtue #Used

The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.
-- Bernadette Soubirous

#God #Blessed #Used

I used practically all the money I had available.
-- Bernard Ebbers

#Used

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
-- Bert Murray

#Shipping #Used #Inevitable

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.
-- Bertrand Meyer

#Language #Used #Found

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.
-- Beth Broderick

#Used #Theater #Showcase

Maybelline’s Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I’ve ever used. I’m really bad at applying liquid liner and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day,
-- Bethany Mota

#Ink #Liquid #Used

Broadway's not what it used to be.
-- Betty Comden

#Broadway #Used

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'
-- Betty MacDonald

#Too Much #Used

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.
-- Bhagat Singh

#Funeral #Life Is #Used

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
-- Bill Ayers

#Way #Boring #Used

People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.
-- Bill Plympton

#People #Want #Used

Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
-- Bill Walton

#Games #Used #Aspect