#spent

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

#greatest #half #library #make #man

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#how #idle #life #long #much

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#childhood #escape #existence #here #i

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#bouncing #bureaucracy #classroom #dollars #education

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#calling #earth #i #iraq #know

On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#canadian #chicago #econometric #first #government

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#come #doing #ever #gosh #hadn

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#lot #performer #spent #temperamental #time

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#cities #finished #four #i #i am

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. ↗

— Karl Rove

#costs #country #dollar #economic #ever