#wasted

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#others #self #wasted

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#bar #bunch #dice #drunks #history

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family. ↗

— Tom Felton

#bought #buy #cars #clothes #could

These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#back #because #been #disappointed #frustrated

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive. ↗

— Bill Joy

#because #being #copy #everyone #expensive

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco. ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#believe #cigarette #day #first #i

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#begins #clear #clear vision #day #did

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted. ↗

— Chris Martin

#awful #been #being #care #cool

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#dying #figure #haven #i #life