#spent

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. ↗

— Steven Chu

#criterion #design #devices #fourth #grade

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#i #life #much #my life #never

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i think #once #philadelphia #spent #sunday

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#mark #mature #out #pointless #programmer

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. ↗

— George Clooney

#drinking #film #had #i #method

I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#bank #best #england #homes #hundreds

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#billion #day #dollars #fema #half

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#budget #every #everyone #fail #federal

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#being #budgets #government #how #know

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#books #called #college #courses #first