Used To Be Quotes - Page 37

• It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, People, Tongue

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• Reality isn't what it used to be.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Used

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.204, Bantam

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• A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Artist, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.303, Penguin

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• I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Next, Littles

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2014

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• It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Easier, Used, Said

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

  S. E. Hinton

  Kids, Wish, Answers

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.88, Penguin

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• She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Parent, Used

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.694, Simon and Schuster

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• I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?

  Michael Jackson

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

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• Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison seeped in. At first he couldn't even get up. He lay there under a heavy weight. But then only movment could save him, and he moved and he moved and he moved, no movement being enough to make up for it. The guilt on him, the hand of God pressing down on him, saying, You were not there when your daughter needed you.

  Alice Sebold

  Daughter, Sleep, Hands

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• And now, sis. Transportation for the Hunters, you say? Good timing. I was just about ready to roll." These demigods will also need a ride," Artemis said, pointing to us. "Some of Chiron's campers." No problem!" Apollo checked us out. "Let's see... Thalia, right? I've heard all about you.". Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zues's girl. yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree didn't you? Glad your back. I hate it when pretty girls get turned into trees. Man, I remeber one time-

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Hate, Men

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.106, Discovery House

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• When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, Looks, Used

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.

  Scott Lynch

  Littles, Reckless, Used

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• God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

  J. D. Salinger

  Used, Reader, Stills

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• You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

  John Mayer

  Book, Knowing, Perfect

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• Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Hate, Men

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• 114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

  Craig Ferguson

  Used

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• You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Used, Lost

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• Halt snorted derisively. "Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be," he replied. "It's a fine thing when an old man like me can sleep comfortably in the open while a young boy gets all stiff and rheumatic over it." Horace shrugged. "Be that as it may," he replied, "I'll still be glad to sleep in a bed tonight." Actually, Halt felt the same way. But he wasn't going to let Horace no that.

  John Flanagan

  Sleep, Boys, Men

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• we shed the skins of who we used to be!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Skins, Used, Shed

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.117, Penguin

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• You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You upset all the things I believed about myself and made me think in new ways. I know who I used to be, but I’m finally ready to figure out who I am. Cynicism gets tiring, Isabel, and you’ve . . . rested me.And don’t you dare tell me you’ve stopped loving me back, because you’re still a better person than I am, and I’m counting on you to take more care with my heart than I took with yours.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Heart, Thinking, Who I Am

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• The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Skulls, Arrows

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.443, Scholastic Inc.

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• Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sandwiches, Maps, Mixtures

  "There and Back Again…." by Patrick Rothfuss, blog.patrickrothfuss.com. May 4, 2010.

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• We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Believe, Dna

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.202, Thomas Nelson Inc

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