Used To Be Quotes (page 17)

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• time
• hope
• book

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

• angel
• bad
• using

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel. Neil Gaiman

• freedom
• she
• heart

Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her? for her body, her heart, and her freedom. Andrei Platonov

• good
• movie
• thinking

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid. Ridley Scott

• getting older
• how
• getting

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be. Paul Newman

• lost
• using
• yours

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

• star
• great
• greatness

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be David Herbert Lawrence

• age
• use to be
• uses

I used to be svelte but with age I have svelled. Henry Alford

• eyes
• manly
• look

When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long... Jodi Picoult

• life
• depression
• depressions

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. David Frost

• kids
• wishes
• answering

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

• self
• thoughts
• about self

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe

• unique
• humanity
• gentleman

It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true—unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward—shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess... Martin Amis

• mind
• mindfulness
• malign

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind. Stephen Fry

• girl
• girls
• others

When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me. Anne Lamott