All Quotes

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

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
‐‐ James Brown

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.
‐‐ Leila Janah

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
‐‐ Julia Sweeney

I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him.
‐‐ Boy George

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.
‐‐ Stella Young

I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.
‐‐ Roz Chast

I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.
‐‐ Katori Hall

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.
‐‐ Tom Waits

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.
‐‐ Pat Cadigan

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
‐‐ Bruce Sterling

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
‐‐ Alana Stewart

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
‐‐ Andy Warhol

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.
‐‐ Edmund White

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.
‐‐ Alice Waters

I used to think that if I didn't have time to do an hour long workout class, there wasn't any point in exercising. But now, I make sure to do a little something every day: a brisk walk for 10 minutes, climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator. Then a few times a week, I do a longer workout.
‐‐ Bobbi Brown

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.
‐‐ Nicole Krauss

I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.
‐‐ Criss Angel

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.
‐‐ Kirk Kerkorian

I used to think that if someone gained their weight back, it was my fault, but all I can do is be God's motivator and try to instill the motivation in others so they do it themselves.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.
‐‐ Lizzie Armitstead

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.
‐‐ Kenneth H. Cooper

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.
‐‐ Andy Murray

I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
‐‐ Kehlani

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.
‐‐ George Eastman

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
‐‐ Amy Tan

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

I used to think... that people would think badly of me for various stuff they read. But now I accept it's just part of the deluge of stuff that comes every day.
‐‐ John Key

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
‐‐ Sam Ervin

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.
‐‐ Richard Ben Cramer

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.
‐‐ Leila Janah

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
‐‐ Robin Williams

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'
‐‐ Demi Moore

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.
‐‐ Tony Buzan

I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'
‐‐ Ian Rankin

I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
‐‐ Chris Farley

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
‐‐ Daniel Craig