Spent Quotes
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Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.
Shailene Woodley
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
Ian Anderson -
I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
Rachel Kushner -
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.
Alfred Wainwright -
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
Bao Dai -
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
Feist -
I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
Alan Hansen
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I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.
Evan Osnos -
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
Oscar Wilde -
We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.
Catherine Bell -
But I didn't know what I could or couldn't do with it. It sat there for 60 years without a plan to start with. I could have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring it all up to code, but that didn't make a lot of sense.
J. M. Roberts -
I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?
David Markson
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After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren't flooded... but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
Henry Ward Beecher -
We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest.
Andrew Chan -
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.
Sigmund Freud -
I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.
Kenko Yoshida
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Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
David Goodstein -
Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.
Cathy Guisewite -
I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.
Claire Cook -
I've spent my life making blunders.
Auguste Renoir