#spent

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#any #briefly #inverse #involved #item

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

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#any #inverse #involved #item #proportion

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#ended #hill #i #like #look

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you? ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#face #horse #i #just #life

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely. ↗

— James Payn

#developed #even #feel #get #good

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#cause #ever #five #friends #i

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#i #myself #normal #pool #something

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#duck #full #hide #i #out

What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it. ↗

— Thomas Ravenscroft

#giving #had #i #left #lost

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. ↗