Spent Quotes

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Who should have spent their money on a brain implant?

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.