Used Quotes - Page 57

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.

I used to teach dance lessons.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

I used to be a partier, now I'm an alcoholic. It's all in who's judging you.

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.

It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kidbut stay focused.

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.