Spend My Life Quotes

#1. I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

Victoria Wood

#2. Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

Heather Anastasiu

#3. I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward.

Gustavo Cerati

#4. One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.

Jason Lewis

#5. It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

Kangana Ranaut

#6. ...you're dazzling. I'm dazzled, I'm upside down and inside out and...God, Vivian. I don't know what to say. There aren't words. I just want to crawl back under the blanket and spend my life doing that with you. And everything else we did today.

Beatriz Williams

#7. I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

Gerhard Richter

#8. Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.

Michael Foreman

#9. Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

Brian Schmidt

#10. I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.

Richard Branson

#11. If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Samuel Johnson

#12. I will spend my life loving you and you will spend your happy life making me a better person, as you already have, from your mere presence ... I will be the man you deserve. I'm not quite there, mouse, but I'm working on it.

Belle Aurora

#13. I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

Alan Furst

#14. All I really want to do is spend my life traveling the world, reading books that take my breath away, drinking all kinds of tea and occasionally write something. I mean is that too much to ask for?

Anonymous

#15. I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Paula Deen

#16. I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would want to bring kids into a world like this?' Or, 'I don't want to spend my life that way. I want to do my artwork.' And they're very unapologetically stating this.

Mary Gaitskill

#17. I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.

Buck Brannaman

#18. It's more about balance for me. I used to be an all or nothing person. And now I would rather have a lifestyle change - rather than use the word 'diet' - where 90 percent of the time spend my life that way and 10 percent of the time have fun and do what my body feels like it needs or craves.

Julianne Hough

#19. It makes it easier to wait for the man God has for me," Said Elly, "Because I already have the most important relationship. I can spend my life loving and being loved by the perfect Bridegroom. I don't have to wait for a man to fall in love with me to make me happy.

Jennae Noelle

#20. Eshe, I want to spend my life with you."
"Good," she whispered back. "That was the plan.

Lynsay Sands

#21. I'd do it a thousand times over for one chance to spend my life with you.

Amanda Gray

#22. I haven't changed my mind. That's the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it's totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there's no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.

Graeme Simsion

#23. I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

Johnny Weir

#24. I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.

John Shelby Spong

#25. As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

Al Yankovic

#26. Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.

Jude Deveraux

#27. I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

Pat Metheny

#28. Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Bob Dylan

#29. I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

John Edwards

#30. I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I'm not in love. I've had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I'm settling for a quiet life with someone I respect and am very fond of and want to spend my life with.

P.D. James

#31. I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

David Shrigley

#32. Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.

Tim O'Brien

#33. I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

Sharon Stone

#34. Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

John Cleese

#35. Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world ... That in itself gives you a different perspective.

Bryan Ferry

#36. Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Irvin D. Yalom

#37. We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

Eli Attie

#38. I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

Helen Keller

#39. Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

Patrick Ness

#40. Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it's also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing in life can ever measure up, so I spend my life limping in its shadow.

Shannon Hale

#41. Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.

Timothy Ferriss

#42. I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.

Sara Paretsky

#43. I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

Dan Marino

#44. I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

John Mortimer

#45. I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

Steven Hill

#46. I think I've found someone with who I want to spend my life with and that person ... Isn't you.

A. Esquivel

#47. I would never say no to that [marriage] . It hasn't been my path up to this point. I think it would be nice to look forward to that. Meeting somebody of that caliber of "Yes, I want to spend my life with you." Of course, why not. I love the fact that that is legal in every state.

Dave Koz

#48. The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

Alison Weir

#49. The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.

Anthony T. Kronman

#50. I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Dan Brown

#51. I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.

Iris Apfel

#52. I spend my life constantly calling in 'imaginary' debts that aren't owed to me in order to avoid the 'real' debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#53. My heart only beat for her, and I'd rather spend my life hating, loving, fucking, and breathing her than losing her.

Penelope Douglas

#54. All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life - collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It's a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#55. Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

Anna Nicole Smith

#56. I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#57. You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

Michael Shannon

#58. At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

Patrick DeWitt

#59. I want to spend my life with you...

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#60. I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

Frank Zappa

#61. I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.

Janet Fitch

#62. I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#63. Were I to spend my life commenting on the world that I see, I would never see the world.

Reif Larsen

#64. I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

Stevie Nicks

#65. I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.

John Gilpin

#66. I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#67. My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Derrick Bell

#68. And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.

Nancy E. Turner

#69. You worry me, Catherine. You seem to think you're quite invincible."
"I'm well aware that I'm not. But I'll not spend my life cowering. That would be no life at all.

Lorraine Heath

#70. I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.

Bruce Springsteen

#71. I love her more than I actually express in words - an irony for a writer - and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.

John Scalzi

#72. If I spend my life preoccupied with me and my own happiness, I will live life missing the deepest joy that God has for me. When

Matthew Kelly

#73. I will spend my life traveling, laughing, drinking all kinds of tea, meeting new people, reading good books, growing things, creating beauty, eating chocolate, doing magic, making love and occasionally I will write something worth reading.

Brooke Hampton

#74. I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

Teller

#75. I knew I wanted you. I knew I wanted to marry you. I knew I wanted to spend my life watching that smile, gazing into those eyes.

Rachel Van Dyken

#76. The woman I wanted to spend my life with was gone. I wasn't in the mood to find a backup.

Nicole Williams

#77. I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?

Soseki Natsume

#78. There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your company.

Rick Cormier

#79. It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

Fred Rogers

#80. You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

Jason Mraz

#81. I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

Laura Linney

#82. Living in fear or judgement is not how I will spend my life. Realizing that this life is all I get and your life is all you get, brings a need to make the best of all possible.

Giancarlo Stanton

#83. I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

David Bowie

#84. I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#85. I spend my life wrestling my own mind over so many things. I chose to be noble even if it slips from my grasp at times

K. Farrell St. Germain

#86. I can't spend my life trying to please other people.

Paulo Coelho

#87. It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

Stella McCartney

#88. I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

Tony Kaye

#89. Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by
wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

Carrie Underwood

#90. I have no desire to spend my life dancing backward.

Tami Hoag

#91. I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

Tracey Emin

#92. I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

Condoleezza Rice

#93. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.

Lynn Coady

#94. Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

Chris Guillebeau

#95. But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

Lisa Kleypas

#96. If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

Chaka Khan

#97. It's just that I've never seen you care about anything in your life.'
I zip my fly.
And Michael goes, I mean, I've watched you spend your while life not feeling bad about anything you're ever done.

Jason Myers

#98. I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them ... But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.

Michael Scott

#99. I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.

Henry Rollins

#100. I spend a lot of time talking about something I believe passionately, which is that life is what you choose to make it, for the most part, and more often than not all you need to do is seize it by the throat and demand more from it.

Frank Turner