Wasted Quotes

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

Nothing is wasted.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.