All Quotes

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
‐‐ Val McDermid

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
‐‐ Tammy Duckworth

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
‐‐ Karl Malone

I spent a lot of time dwelling on yesterday, and it did me no good.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
‐‐ Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.
‐‐ Peter Malkin

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
‐‐ Christopher Guest

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

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

I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.
‐‐ Jodi Kantor

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
‐‐ Colin Hanks

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.
‐‐ Fred Armisen

I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.
‐‐ Jaquelin T. Robertson

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein's descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.
‐‐ Diane Keaton

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
‐‐ Lizzo

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
‐‐ Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
‐‐ Halle Berry

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.
‐‐ Bill Parcells

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.
‐‐ John Prendergast

I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
‐‐ Ramon Rodriguez

I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.
‐‐ Paula Hawkins

I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
‐‐ Thomas Jane

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
‐‐ Brene Brown

I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.
‐‐ John Varvatos

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.
‐‐ David Cook

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able to go and write and get behind the camera, that's my thing.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.
‐‐ Joe Jamail

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
‐‐ George Burns

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.
‐‐ Darren Aronofsky

I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
‐‐ James Luceno

I spent about five years stuck in a room between the ages of 16 and 20 while I wrote the first book, which came out when I was 21. I should have been out playing tennis.
‐‐ Paul Muldoon

I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
‐‐ Burt Rutan

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I'm about to curl up with a book.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
‐‐ Lena Dunham

I spent all my youth with horses.
‐‐ Guillaume Canet

I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
‐‐ Troy Garity

I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.
‐‐ Bille August

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

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

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.
‐‐ Donald Tusk

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.
‐‐ John Tesh

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
‐‐ Mark Millar

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
‐‐ Alfred Russel Wallace

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.
‐‐ Cory Booker

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

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.
‐‐ Johnny Bench

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
‐‐ Abraham Pais

I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley

I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.
‐‐ Eric Shinseki

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.
‐‐ Rider Strong

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.
‐‐ Edward Burns

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.
‐‐ Scott Turow

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.
‐‐ Chad Coleman

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
‐‐ Oleg Cassini