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...

Every penny I’ve ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn’t, trying to get people to like me.

I’ve spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel...

I’ve spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

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

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

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

When you’ve got the money, you spend it. When you’ve spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.

It’s hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you’re really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be...

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

The time I’ve spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

The sacred bequestOf times long spent with your heartThat saturate and illuminate you nowSo piercingly…

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...

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to ‘improving the brain’ that a student brings to the classroom.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood – it’s not likely they’re going to improve. On the other hand, they’re not going to get any worse.

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I’ve discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and...

An important impression was my father’s one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don’t necessarily want to be alive.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that’s needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

Immanuel Kant famously claimed that ‘he who wills the ends wills the means,’ but he never spent much time in Washington.

I’ve spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It’s just not my home.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

I spent much of my life hiding.

I’ve done two USO Tours, one in the Middle East and one in Asia, and spent time with the troops.

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

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint ‘La Grande Jatte.’

I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything – height, flights – I had no idea why.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else’s spotlight.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

We’re just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we’re doing, and the reason why is that we’ve spent 30 years doing it. There’s nothing that can replace that.