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Quotes About Usage

These souls, saith love, live of knowing of love and of hearing. This is [the] continual usage of these souls without departing them [therefrom]: for knowing and love and magnifying dwelleth in them. These souls, that be such, cannot find the good nor the evil, nor have knowing of themselves to make judgement whether they be converted or perverted.
~ Marguerite Porete
La poesía no es de quien la escribe, sino de quien la usa!
~ Antonio Skármeta
We need to be cautious in using language in a pejorative way. Words ending in -ism and -ist seem to lend themselves to emotive rather than descriptive use.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you're talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the people that use the technology have to be responsible for it, and if they use it irresponsibly, they have to be held accountable.
~ Andy Jassy
Raoul felt suddenly impatient. 'Heart of a man, if the Lady Elfrida will trust herself to me I will have her in spite of every customary usage!' 'There spoke the Norman,' Edgar said softly. 'Marauding, grasping, marking his prey!
~ Georgette Heyer
I see email being used, by and large, exactly the way I envisioned. In particular, it's not strictly a work tool or strictly a personal thing. Everybody uses it in different ways, but they use it in a way they find works for them.
~ Ray Tomlinson
I have a car, but I don't use it very much - only when I go for my shoots - so the carbon footprint is tiny.
~ Jim Sarbh
I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow.
~ John Banville
According to an analysis done by Swift Key, Canada uses the poop emoji more than any other country. Hearts are number one in France, even beating the standard smiley and Australia leads the world in alcohol and drug related emojis
~ Scott Matthews
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
~ Steven Pinker
In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.
~ Lewis Mumford
Certainly, b?r?' is only ever used of God, but is not restricted to creatio ex nihilo. And '?s?h is sometimes used to mean 'create ex nihilo'.
~ Jonathan Sarfati
We tracked the "funnel metrics" behaviors that were critical to our engine of growth: customer registration, the download of our application, trial, repeat usage, and purchase.
~ Eric Ries
Tools are first adopted because they meet a certain need or solve a particular problem, but over time the utensils we feel happy using are mainly determined by culture.
~ Bee Wilson
There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.
~ Franklin Foer
As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.
~ Rick Smolan
Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.
~ Jose Canseco
I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
~ Tanya Tucker
Any tool can be used badly.
~ Conrad Wolfram
Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.
~ Prue Leith
I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.
~ Rick Boucher
Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.
~ Ovid, The Erotic Poems
We are studying sensible ways to amend our own constitution in India. And we often joke that perhaps you Americans could lend us yours, because you seem no longer to be using it yourselves.
~ Barry Eisler