#used

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#always #even #how #i #i always

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#church #dad #enough #funny #getting

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends. ↗

— David Strathairn

#energy #expended #film #i #i think

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#grandmother #i #little #little things #me

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#authorities #brother #chance #chinese #convinced

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#believe #conferences #effective #focused #gatherings

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#am #around #away #between #come

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#four #get #hard #household #matter

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#each #focused #itself #scene #sentences

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone. ↗

— Anna Sui

#beautiful #cotton #could #gone #i