Use To Be Quotes:

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

- Kate Nash

source: Song: Merry Happy, Album: Made of Bricks, 2007

topic: Flower, Use, Dirt, Use To Be

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

- Seth Godin

topic: Important, Use, Might, Use To Be

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

source: "America’s Most Serious Twentysomething Actor". Interview with Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. March 30, 2006.

topic: Years, Use, Actors, Brothels, Use To Be

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

- Archie Shepp

source: "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.detroitartistsworkshop.com.

topic: Beer, Black, Bars, Black Music, Use To Be

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

- Wolfman Jack

topic: Country, Real, Use, Oldies, Use To Be

The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

topic: Enemy, Weakness, Use, Congressman, Use To Be

The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.

- Michael Moore

topic: Fall, Average, Years, Modern World, Use To Be

I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.

- Christopher Walken

topic: Expression, Dancer, Use, Use To Be

You have to take your hat off to the homosexual and gay community cause right now they're as strong as black people USE to be when it comes to their rights.

- Tyrese Gibson

topic: Hats Off, Gay Community, Use To Be

Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.

- Toby Keith

topic: Nice, Real, Hands, Use To Be

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

- Amanda Burton

topic: Years, Looks, Use, Use To Be

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

- Roscoe Bartlett

source: "Interview with Roscoe Bartlett on Peak Oil". Interview with David Room, www.resilience.org. May 3, 2005.

topic: Energy, Needs, Culture, Use To Be

Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Fighting, Practice, Class, Use To Be

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

- Kathy Valentine

topic: Valentines Day, Thinking, Different, Significant Other, Use To Be

I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!

- Ryan Adams

topic: Use, Curious, Use To Be

Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!

- John J. Kiernan

topic: Baseball, Warrior, Light, Use To Be

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

- Carlos Castaneda

source: Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

topic: Spiritual, Believe, Warrior, Spiritual Warrior, Hardest Thing

It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through life like a person with one eye, through a landscape that looks flat, but is really tricked out with hidden depths and shallows. It didn’t use to be so, but no matter. I navigate the world well enough in my own way.

- Franny Billingsley

source: Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

topic: Moving, Eye, Ideas, Use To Be

this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.

- Claudia Gray

topic: Sadness, Thinking, Forever, Taunting, Churning

This book [ "Win"] is based on the interviews with three dozen Fortune 400 - or Forbes 400, the richest people, and a couple dozen of the top CEOs.I wanted to know what language they use to be successful, and I wanted to know the attributes that could then be applied to the average individual.

- Frank Luntz

topic: Couple, Book, Successful, Forbes, Use To Be