Spent Quotes

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months shooting this season and it was very secretive, very sexy, a lot of blood and fangs.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

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

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.