Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality.
I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully
I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn
It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.
When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you see that there are inequities. This administration has used the tax code to accelerate wealth to the top. Most of the tax breaks have gone to people in the top bracket.
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
It's your eyes. They're. . . more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.
They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.
Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark,. . . I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.
