All Quotes

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.
‐‐ Luke Evans

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

I used to take Sharpies and draw on my pillowcases, and then go to sleep on them and wake up with red marker from the drool all on my face.
‐‐ Kid Cudi

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders

I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.
‐‐ Diane Farr

I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.
‐‐ Caitlin Flanagan

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
‐‐ Harry Frankfurt

I used to teach dance lessons.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
‐‐ Ike Barinholtz

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.
‐‐ Stephen Moyer

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.
‐‐ Pee Wee Reese

I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.
‐‐ Nell Newman

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
‐‐ Algernon Blackwood

I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
‐‐ Chuck Noll

I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'
‐‐ Tracee Ellis Ross

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.
‐‐ Clyde Tombaugh

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.
‐‐ Kevin P. Ryan

I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.
‐‐ Howie Carr

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
‐‐ Laura Kightlinger

I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn't exist - life comes with bumps and grazes.
‐‐ Andrea McLean

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
‐‐ Lydia Lunch

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'
‐‐ Frank Serpico

I used to think I actually was Batman.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.
‐‐ Savion Glover

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
‐‐ David Mamet

I used to think I'd like to have been a pioneer on the Oregon Trail, experience untamed America.
‐‐ Tracie Peterson

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

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

I used to think I had this responsibility to carry on this tradition. Now I just feel like I have to keep the dance out there, keep it in the public eye.
‐‐ Savion Glover

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.
‐‐ Sheena Easton

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.
‐‐ Lisa Tuttle

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
‐‐ Capucine

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
‐‐ Randy Jackson

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
‐‐ Muriel Spark

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.
‐‐ Beth Orton

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
‐‐ Jonathan Franzen