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Tag Name "Spent" (2081)

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It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
Edward Sapir
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I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
Donella Meadows
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I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
Allan Sloan
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I spent maybe a week all day every day working on the wall, my first legal wall because I was just so excited and it was nice to be able to chill and relax and work on the piece instead of doing it quickly and running from the cops or whatever. Then it just really grew from there. Other people saw it and appreciated the skill.
Alec Monopoly
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.
Donnie Yen
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I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.
Allen Iverson
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
Eli Roth
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For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.
Doris Day
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we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.
Allen Tate
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A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
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I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.
Elisabeth Shue
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I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.
Dorothy Koomson
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Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.
Allison McAtee
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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
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I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.
Elisabeth Shue
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The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.
Doug Rice
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It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
Ally Carter
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I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.
Alex Toth
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Elementary and high school students will still be tested under the new law. There just won't be so much riding on the scores. Also the arts didn't disappear under the old law, No Child Left Behind. But, Christopher Woodside of the National Association for Music Education says with so much time spent testing math and reading, the arts suffered.
Elizabeth Blair Lee
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Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
Douglas Wilson
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My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera
Alton Brown
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Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.
Alexander McCall Smith
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