Quotes of Used - somelinesforyou

“ Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed? ”

- Victoria Wood

“ Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed. ”

- Romano Prodi

“ Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. ”

- Sir William Temple

“ A good wit ill employed is dangerous in a commonwealth. ”

- Demosthenes

“ No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ I have a feeling that the population is being utilized to carry out the dirty work. ”

- Jean Claude

“ When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is tallow a remedy to be applied. ”

- Pierre Corneille

“ In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. ”

- Ben Hecht

“ Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ”

- St. Jerome

“ It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being… Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe. ”

- Madonna Ciccone

“ People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it. ”

- Noel Coward

“ Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. ”

- Anonymous

“ As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ I am used to praying when I am alone, thank God. But when I come together with other people, when I need more than ever to pray, I still cannot get used to it. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people's hands, people used to be shocked because they'd never seen this before. To me it was quite normal. ”

- Princess Diana

“ I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ I wouldn't call it religion. I call it a conscious contact with my Higher Power. I choose to call him God. I used to call him Glenn, but that used to piss him off! ”

- Glenn Hughes

“ The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched. ”

- Jo Coudert

“ I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky — my name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. A sign is everything which can be taken as significantly substituting for something else. This something else does not necessarily have to exist or to actually be somewhere at the moment in which a sign stands in for it… ”

- Umberto Eco

“ The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. ”

- James Hutton

“ It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool… ”

- Malcolm X

“ You'd use recorded effects and then they'd have to come off discs. So we tried to make our own, and we used to have all sorts of things. We used to have roller skates for making train noises over rails and I remember once trying to effect the noise of someone's head being chopped off… ”

- George Martin

“ At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. ”

- Emo Phillips
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