Spent Quotes

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.