Top 700 Spent Quotes

On holidays, I spent time alone at home watching a movie, reading a book, and contemplating. Now that I think about it, if I hadn’t had that time, I probably wouldn’t have been able to do acting.
HoYeon Jung
I’m not so funny. Gilda was funny. I’m funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.
Gene Wilder
You have to starve the Beast. That’s one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it’s going to be spent.
Steve Chabot
I’ve spent my entire career in semiconductors.
Lisa Su
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.
Will Rogers
Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.
Geraldo Rivera
After I spent my compulsory army service in the ‘top secret office’ of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ada Yonath
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
George J. Mitchell
It’s interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that – he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.
Francis Collins
I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
Alan Hansen
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
Thomas Jane
My dad works in child protection and he’s spent many, many years in that line of work.
Chris Hemsworth
All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.
Tom Brady
Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It’s a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.
Laurel Clark
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.
Ron Silver
I am very friendly with lots of people in rock’n’roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick’s work.
Jerry Hall
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.
Sidney Altman
At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.
Jim Messina
I’m not sure whether I’ve been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: ‘You can’t rewind the movie. I’ve spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.’
Robert Fisk
Resources are a trust of the nation, and each and every penny is being spent on public welfare projects honestly.
Shehbaz Sharif
People who don’t know me have opinions about me. That’s the part that’s very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you’ve never met them or spent any time with them? So it’s all based upon hearsay or things that they’ve read.
Rick Barry
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being ‘someone’s girlfriend’, and now I am happy being single.
Penelope Cruz
I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I’ve done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.
Claude Monet
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
Benjamin Franklin
Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
Charles Kuralt
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I’ve ever spent.
Sandra Cisneros
What the results are telling them is that the most mone

What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.
Marlo Thomas
I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.
Willie Aames
The manager is by himself. He can’t mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
Al Lopez
Let’s not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let’s not destroy it. Because you don’t know 10 years out what you’re going to face.
William Colby
The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.
Jim Sullivan
I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
Joseph Barbera
I am grateful to have spent 25 years at the ‘International Herald Tribune’ – a newspaper where I had unstinting support in being able to express myself freely and honestly.
Suzy Menkes
I had people in my life who didn’t give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.
Temple Grandin
Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club’s operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.
Bud Selig
The Law of Triviality… briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.
James Tobin
I spent so much of my time when I was growing up just worrying about what people thought of me, about my appearance, how I should act in school, how to… be popular and all that rubbish. Stop worrying about everything. Everything’s going to be okay.
Jade Thirlwall
Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we’ve all made.
Daniel Levitin
I was an introvert really. I spent a lot of time in the crib reading books. Staying out of trouble.
The D.O.C.
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
Nelson Mandela
I’m passionate about people. I’ve spent my life in advocacy. People matter – whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.
Ann Marie Buerkle
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.
Bianca Jagger
As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.
Oliver Luck
They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.
Tom Udall
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Tryon Edwards
I’m not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don’t have to know anything about his life, even though I’ve just written a biography!
Stephen Greenblatt
In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.
Lisa Cholodenko
It’s a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I’ve spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
Edith Widder
I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
Saul Leiter
For ‘Twisted Fantasy,’ I probably spent 180 days in the studio.
Mike Dean
You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you’ll find – you’re never sorry you were kind.
Herbert V. Prochnow
A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. – I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.
James Darren
For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond – or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever – ‘is a pretty good political reporter,’ the default response would be, ‘but he’s no David Broder.’
Jack Germond
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
Pierce Brosnan
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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.
Richard M. Nixon