Used Quotes

• I never get used to the response that people have toward me.

  

  Chamique Holdsclaw
  • People
  • Never
  • Response

• In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Guitar
  • Reputation
  • Fingers

• The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Great
  • Technology

• I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Company
  • Values
  • Used

• But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Advice

• Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Remember
  • Enough

• As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Women
  • Company
  • Room

• It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Used
  • Counterproductive

• I disagree with everything I used to say.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Used
  • Disagree

• What we're trying to do is have all of the mass and volume be used for the purpose it is to be used for, which is to power the device.

  

  Angela Belcher
  • Purpose
  • Used
  • Mass

• I used to hate my hair. Now I love it. I spend hours brushing my hair out after it dries. I love it when it's big.

  

  Petra Collins
  • Hate
  • Hair
  • Brushing

• Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

  

  Will McDonough
  • World
  • Games
  • Television

• When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Film
  • Wanted
  • Function

• I used to think I actually was Batman.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Thinking
  • Used
  • Batman

• As a result, I suppose, of high-level changes of mind about how we were to be used, we went though several reorganizations. Perhaps because Americans as a nation have a gift for organizing, we tend to meet any new situation by reorganization, and a wonderful method it is for creating the illusion of progress at the mere cost of confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

  

  Charlton Ogburn
  • Changes
  • Americans
  • Organizing

• I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.

  

  Mike Birbiglia
  • Littles
  • Used
  • Every

• I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Way
  • Hands
  • Plans

• When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Hate
  • Stuff
  • Rounds

• She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Wanted
  • Filled
  • Buried

• People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Used
  • Masters
  • Instrument

• In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Age
  • Community
  • Mean

• I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Hard

• Weaponization of a candidate's words against him or her is something we're seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a pejorative way, but Obama again reclaimed it.

  

  Ben Zimmer
  • Term
  • Used
  • Obamacare

• I believe the greatest blessing God can send a man, is disappointment, rightly met and used...You are quite certain, my friend, as you go on through life, to have to make up your mind to failure and disappointment on your own part, and to seeing other men preferred before you...The only way not to be disappointed when a thing turns out against you, is not to have really cared how the thing went.

  

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
  • Life
  • Disappointment
  • Used

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