Findings:

• not what words are used, but how they are used
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• Ain't what I'm gonna be, ain't what I wanna be, but lord thank you I ain't what I used to be.
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Recessive traits aren't what they used to be
• Things never were what they used to be
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• They Might Be Giants
• There is a space between your shoulders where your wings used to be
• RIT was supposed to be built in New Mexico
• Be patient, you will get your patent. And they will pat you on the back.
• The proper temperature can be reached through the use of heaters
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• In the future, hairstyles will be just like they are now
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• We used to be more in sync
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• Hot pursuit
• not as funny as it used to be
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• a pile of dust where a fun girl used to be
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• They will be lucky for you. Allah favors the compassionate.
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• Can my nodes be used against me in a court of law?
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• The IRT That Used To Be
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• taters haster be peelt an' boilt fore they kin be masht an' et
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Romantic as in 19th century German aesthetics, not what mommy says daddy used to be.
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• Sometimes in the quiet spaces between the sheets we forget who we each used to be
• but you wanna be bad
• Today will be difficult. But tomorrow, good riding.
• This is how it appears on Wikipedia and they tend to be somewhat anal about grammar, so I'm trusting this is correct
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• but wherever i go i'll be looking for you
• Unloved, yeah. But I'd rather be cursed than poisoned.
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Moments such as these are superfluous to my life; nevertheless, they deserve to be remembered.
• There are times when they seem to be right
• Where's the kaboom?
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• Paid to be nice
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• Dogs can be used for detecting mold in houses
• Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
• WARNING: Noders May Not Be What They Seem to Be
• Don't trust Elves; they may want to be your friends
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• They will not be named!
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• Information wants to be paid
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• They be killin' some hog over thar'.....
• I used to be a carpenter
• Men are designed to be good hunters, but it's women who are born killers
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
• they does not know what it might be to live without them
• It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
• Don't ever lie. If you lie to your friends, they won't trust you, and you'll have nothing, and you'll never be safe.
• The Ten Commandments revised
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• this is unlike the story it was written to be
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• Frontiers are not easy, nor are they meant to be
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• Imagine how happy you might be if you spent less time imagining how happy you might be.
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• If you can't be used, you're useless.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• play dumb
• The zombie revolution will not be televised. But it will be tweeted.
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• Each thing she learned became part of herself, to be used over and over in new adventures
• Automobile tire pressure
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• If people weren't meant to be eaten, they wouldn't be made of meat!
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• The largest number that can be described in 14 words or less
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• Things I would be interested in seeing used in a literary context
• Nostalgia ain't what it used to be
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• The increase of entropy ain't what it used to be
• If God was willing to let it be
• I used to be racist
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• The IND That Used To Be
• The Lines That Used To Be
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• The MTA That Used To Be
• Starving in the greenhouse
• The BMT That Used To Be
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• we used to be punk
• Or at least it used to be
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
• I used to be that girl.
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• Attention must be paid
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• They say the prettiest girls get to be angels
• If love was a circus, you'd be a clown
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Beautiful things should be left alone lest they become just another thing that we should throw away.
• Your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device
• The back of the cereal box isn't what it used to be
• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
• Anything you say can and will be used against you. (e2poll)
• this was supposed to be a parable about the power of the imagination
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• It is not known why a goose would be used in this manner
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• I met her today, the girl I used to be
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• You used to be a substantial woman
• How the Internet came to be: On use by other networks
• I used to be bulimic
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• She was too beautiful to be human
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences

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