Top 700 Spent Quotes

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
Keith Thibodeaux
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Unknown
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.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And that can be just a few minutes sitting on your porch feeling the breeze against your face. That can be a few moments spent in meditation or in prayer or remembering three things you’re grateful for.
Vivek Murthy
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
Moby
Even though I’m from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn’t really much of a conversation.
Andrew Rannells
No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I’ve done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent.
Bill Scott
I spent my teenage years and early 20s being manipulated – well, not manipulated, but I was told what to do and what to say by agents and managers, and when I was around 23 I thought ‘I am sick of pretending to be someone and saying all these things that don’t really resonate with me.’
Liz Cambage
We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.
Jesse Helms
As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with.
Timothy Murphy
I can’t stand going to those sandwich bars where you’ve got to choose your own stuff, because I don’t know what goes together. It does my head in. I’d rather them tell me. I’m not the expert. I haven’t spent years learning these different combinations.
Rhys Darby
I got ‘Power’ on my own through my agent and my team. I didn’t know 50 until I got on the show. Because my character is so close to his, we spent a lot of time as friends. But even in that, I didn’t really bring up music to him because I saw how everybody else was bringing up music to him.
Rotimi
I could have made a small film and kept all the money from ‘Life is Beautiful’. Instead, I spent more money than I had on ‘Pinocchio’, a very risky film.
Roberto Benigni
We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family – but it’s all Liverpool now.
Linda McCartney
You know, this is really a way of cooking. It’s not my way. I’m deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I’ve spent a lot of time there. And I’ve sort of translated it; I’ve tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.
Sally Schneider
I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.
Diablo Cody
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
Helen Hunt Jackson
I didn’t make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
I spent a lot of time in Europe. I spent a lot of time in United States, I know what is modern standards of life… and always, if I return to my home country, I ask my country why very simple things that works everywhere else in the world doesn’t work in Ukraine.
Vitali Klitschko
A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I’m going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I’ve spread through my performance and through the time that I’ve spent with fans.
Jason Newsted
I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
Maureen O’Hara
We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.
Aileen Lee
I spent two years living in London – I’d have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
Lady Starlight
Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It’s the biggest bang for our buck. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. In fact, the more you put in, the greater the successes for the U.K. economy.
Cornelia Parker
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation’s part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Simon Raven
The happiest years of my mother’s life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
Caroline Kennedy
It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.
Alex Grey
‘The more expensive the better’ is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
Macklemore
I have spent more time on stage than at home.
Y. G. Mahendran
I’ve always thought I’d been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?
O. J. Simpson
I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.
Jane Hamilton
I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full commitment leaves me feeling frustrated and ineffective.
Chris Sacca
I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.
Sophie Turner
The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter – my great-grandmother – spent it.
A’Lelia Bundles
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury
I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.
David Guterson
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
Dennis Prager
All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.
Steve Harvey
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Serena Williams
If I spent my career responding to critics, I’d never be where I’m at right now.
Roy Jones Jr.
I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.
Chris Cornell
I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
Michael Phelps
When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
Wayne Dyer
People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
There’s not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven’t spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
Chaka Fattah
I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.
Sonia Sotomayor
I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.
Abby Lee Miller
I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.
Helen Reddy
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
Daniel Craig
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that

I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
Orson Welles
I’m Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I’ve spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life.
Louie Schwartzberg
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
Warren Cuccurullo
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?
Ralph Marston