Famous quotes containing the word spent:
“I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Sam Tostin: You know I spent a lot of years disliking women. But I dont dislike you.
Major Hayward: Dont you?
Sam Tostin: Youre different. Youre not a woman. Youre more than that. Youre a mechanic.”
—Stanley Shapiro (19251990)
“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.”
—Antonin Artaud (18961948)