#spent

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#ours #saved #spent

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black. ↗

— Larry Rivers

#africa #anything #back #black #came

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#anyhow #artist #excellence #i #i always

I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany. ↗

— Pete Best

#back #because #close #germany #him

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. ↗

— Simon Cameron

#called #few #here #i #i am

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#blues #country #early #every #few

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror. ↗

— Larry Craig

#carry #congress #dollars #effectively #everything

When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#about #allowed #back #been #being

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. ↗

— Bao Dai

#given #government #had #i #me

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. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly