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  • In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

    Rip   Clouds   Leaving  
    Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

    Hair   Color   Eyebrows  
    "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.
  • There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

    Mother   Lying   Way  
  • Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.

    Country   Israel   People  
    "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu's election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.
  • Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

    Next   Sometimes   Fit  
    "Terry Pratchett on his latest novel, his medical diagnosis, and more". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2012.
  • I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.

    Mom   Kids   Grandmother  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

    Used  
    "Question time: David Bailey" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.
  • Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

  • I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

    Trying   Steps   Used  
  • The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.

    Grief   Winter   Night  
  • I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

    Funny   Witty   Kids  
  • Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

  • As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

    FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 09, 2011
  • My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love." [Stacey] "Intimate? Sharing food? People you love?" Amber raises an eyebrow. "Um, no offense, Stace, but it sounds like Gram was into food kink.

  • History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

    James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”
  • Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

    "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.
  • I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

    Mother   Husband   Kids  
  • I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.

    Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press
  • I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.

    "The Origins of the Military Dictatorship of Hindenburg and Ludendorff". Book by Jon Bridgman, 1960.
  • A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

  • It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

    Funny   Sex   Dirty  
  • I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.

    Men   Bird   Answers  
    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing
  • 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.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

    Lonely   Problem   Used  
    J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.207, Penguin
  • God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

    "The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As The Language Of Nature". Book by Heinz Pagels, p. 295, 1982.
  • The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in the strings, the sound was more mellow and softer; it also allowed me to cover a larger span of the fingerboard. I used this for quite a few years, but eventually I went back to the standard fingerboard.

    Music   Years   Sound  
  • It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.

    Fall   Opportunity   Dvds  
    "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.
  • Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

    Car   House   Crank  
  • I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

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