Using Me Quotes - Page 6

• Just keep on using me, until you use me up.

  Bill Withers

  Use

  Song: Use Me Up, Album: Still Bill, 1972

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• I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

  Marge Piercy

  Giving, Choices, Mind

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• I think God gives medication that heals some illnesses. But I think when you deny the reality of evil, you want to use medicine to solve every problem, and it doesn't solve every problem.

  Robert Jeffress

  Reality, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Technique, Use

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• I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

  Bentley Little

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

  Elvis Costello

  Art, Media, News

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• Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

  Yasmina Reza

  Father, Men, Thinking

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• I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Moose, Use

  Letter to Mark Hanna, 17 June 1900. Roosevelt had used the expression "I feel as strong as a bull-moose" in an earlier letter of 29 Oct. 1895.

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• I've had a lot of people in my past who were friends with me just to get publicity. When I was young, my mom or sister used to have to point out if someone was using me to make a name for themselves – you know, linking arms with me on the red carpet and trying to get in every picture. But now I can see for myself when someone is just hungry for attention.

  Paris Hilton

  Mom, Past, Names

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• You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.

  Richard Pryor

  Sex, Men, Scary

  "The time of his life" by William Cook, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2004.

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• Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Use, Want

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• People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Quality, Want

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• Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

  Publilius Syrus

  Medicine, Use, Lasts

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• The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.

  Robert Thurman

  Long, Meditation, Understanding

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Cake, Oil, Use

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

  William Shawcross

  Mean, Reality, Men

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• A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

  Paul McCartney

  Memories, Writing, Artist

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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• I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Mean, Phones, Cells

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• Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

  Mario Balotelli

  Gossip, Stories, Use

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• There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

  Anne Carson

  Thinking, Always Trying, Greek

  "Magical thinking" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, People

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• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  Abraham Verghese

  Teacher, Years, Eerie

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• It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

  Deborah Tannen

  War, Taken, Fighting

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• We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Horse, Views, Drug

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• We need more physicians on air. We understand the human being, experience and condition, and we need to be using media to deliver that. We cannot be afraid to entertain. Experiential phenomenon that entertains, educates. It changes peoples' ideas and culture. I believe that strongly.

  Drew Pinsky

  Believe, Ideas, Air

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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