Spent

Famous quotes containing the word spent:

    They say the tongues of dying men
    Enforce attention like deep harmony.
    Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
    For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, “They lived happily ever after” and the following quarter-century warning that they’ll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
    Nora Ephron (b. 1941)

    Sam Tostin: You know I spent a lot of years disliking women. But I don’t dislike you.
    Major Hayward: Don’t you?
    Sam Tostin: You’re different. You’re not a woman. You’re more than that. You’re a mechanic.
    Stanley Shapiro (1925–1990)