It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
Will Rogers

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Colin Powell

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
George Burns

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson Mizner

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
Rita Rudner

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
David Ogilvy

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
Spike Milligan