#used

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#film star #focused #get #ideal #ideal world

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#changed #down #exercising #i #just

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead. ↗

— Harry Caray

#cow #down #go #holy #i

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#barn #behind #i #kid #naive

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#i #i do #like #much #read

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#bargain #conclude #deception #end #infatuated

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#bronx #doing #go #i #knees

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#bbc #circus #days #film #flying

There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard. ↗

— John Astin

#down #gomez #got #hanging #hard