Used Quotes - Page 43

He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. "Ja-hooty?" Thoth looked offended. "In Ancient Egyptian, it's a perfectly fine name. The Greeks called me Thoth. Then later they confused me with their god Hermes. Even had the nerve to rename my sacred city Hermopolis, though we're nothing alike. Believe me, if you've ever met Hermes--

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

I'm so used to hate that I'm starting to embrace it.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.