All Quotes

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
‐‐ Sean Lennon

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
‐‐ Andrew Lincoln

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.
‐‐ Shirley Henderson

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
‐‐ Irving Stone

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.
‐‐ Trey Parker

I spend so much of my day at work. I would like to have the workplace be part of a healthier strategy. Reminding me more about walking the steps rather than taking that elevator. Not just promoting healthier food in the cafeteria, but providing information on healthier choices. I use it when I look at the alternatives.
‐‐ Harvey V. Fineberg

I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
‐‐ Ben Stein

I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'Top Chef: Just Desserts,' but when I have the chance to stay somewhere more luxurious, I love The Montage in Beverly Hills.
‐‐ Gail Simmons

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
‐‐ Irvine Welsh

I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.
‐‐ Kay Panabaker

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.
‐‐ Hayden Panettiere

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.
‐‐ John Leo

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
‐‐ Xavi

I spend the most time with the Wii.
‐‐ Alyssa Sutherland

I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
‐‐ Jim Edgar

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
‐‐ Aby Rosen

I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.
‐‐ Josh Henderson

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.
‐‐ Anita Elberse

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.
‐‐ Sara Paretsky

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.
‐‐ Mike Quigley

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
‐‐ Kristen Johnston

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.
‐‐ Craig Venter

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.
‐‐ Jerry McNerney

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.
‐‐ David Javerbaum

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.
‐‐ Nicholas Jarecki

I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.
‐‐ Miriam Toews

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
‐‐ Frank Darabont

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
‐‐ Brian May

I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012, the relationship I was in ended, and I took the first plane to L.A. where my Swedish label has been setting up base. I felt so much more inspired to write and record than I had ever been, and the songs just started coming.
‐‐ Erik Hassle

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
‐‐ Allen West

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.
‐‐ John Glenn

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.
‐‐ Steven Michael Quezada

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.
‐‐ Kristian Bush

I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.
‐‐ Stephen Collins

I spent 28 years working in healthcare. I thought I'd retired from non-profit community health care.
‐‐ Glenn Thompson

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
‐‐ Bob Feller

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
‐‐ Don Nelson

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
‐‐ Alton Brown

I spent a couple of months just riding a bike doing my own training in the streets.
‐‐ Jonny Lee Miller

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.
‐‐ Travis Kalanick