I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
Jim Harrison

My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
Ray Charles

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.
Linus Torvalds

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
James Herriot

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.
Peter Sellers

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
Peter Sellers

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
Stevie Nicks

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?
Sean Hannity

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Johannes Brahms

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
Don Van Vliet

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
Josh McDowell

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.
Paul Lynde

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
Chuck Close

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Chuck Close

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
George Best

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
Tom Cruise

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
Sam Levenson

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
Roy Rogers