Used Quotes - Page 35

The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.

Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

Never confuse motion with action.

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

I think someone's biggest competition is themselves. I stand out as a 'fashion' designer and not to be confused with, (people who call themselves 'clothing' designers, who just print designs or logos on pre-existing t-shirts), because what I have created is custom fashions that are a personal extension of myself and my personality. It's pretty unique since there is only one of me.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.

The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

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

Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

My father used to tell us, 'You will have to work twice as hard to get what you want.

After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.