Used Quotes - Page 13

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.

Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict - and of tragedy - can never wholly be eliminated from human life, either personal or social. The necessity of choosing between absolute claims is then an inescapable characteristic of the human condition. This gives its value to freedom as Acton conceived of it - as an end in itself, and not as a temporary need, arising out of our confused notions and irrational and disordered lives, a predicament which a panacea could one day put right.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.

I think what you've got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They're confused. They're working longer hours for lower wages. They're seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They're looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

I think people are fascinated with breasts that bounce. They are so used to seeing fake ones – people are confused. My breasts have a life of their own.

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.