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.

- Alan Vega

I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

- Brett Favre

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

- Bob Woodward

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

- Bob Newhart

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

- Benjamin Franklin

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

- Ana Castillo

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

- Alaya Dawn Johnson

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

- Andrew Mitchell

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.

- Aberjhani

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

- Ana Ortiz

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

- Al Franken

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.

- Asif Kapadia

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

- Antony Gormley

Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

I've spent my life supporting myself.

- Ann Beattie

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

- Adam Schlesinger

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

- Allen West

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

- Alan Hansen

Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.'

- Alan Ball

Who should have spent their money on a brain implant?

- Anne Robinson