Spending Time Quotes - Page 5

• Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

  Gary Paulsen

  Song, Stupid, Book

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• Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life has to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Hands, Talking, Together

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Aug 04, 2012

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• He wasn't into one-night stands, he wasn't into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn't into acting just charming enough to get what he wanted before cutting loose in favor of someone new and attractive. He just wasn't like that. He would never be like that. When he met a girl, the first question he asked himself wasn't whether she was good for a few dates; it was whether she was the kind of girl he could imagine spending time with in the long haul.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Cutting, Night

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• The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Stupid, Reading, Technology

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• I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

  Paul Goldberger

  Thinking, Trying, Would Be

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  Felicity Jones

  Real, Reading, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.

  Eddie Vedder

  Order, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Pain, Home

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Spending time by myself is VERY important to me and I wake up pretty early, I wake up around 5 in the morning, and I get to have a couple hours to myself, and that is definitely I think really important to me and I think it's important for moms to have that too. And I love to carve out time for myself and sometimes I'll hang out with girlfriends, but i like to keep things pretty intimate.

  Nicole Richie

  Mom, Girlfriend, Morning

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 17, 2014.

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• Anytime I am spending time with my son. We went to a theme party recently and it was Toy Story. He was Buzz Lightyear, I was Woody and his mom dressed like Woody's wife.

  Daniel Jacobs

  Mom, Party, Son

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• Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

  Jason Peter

  Fall, Meaning Of Life, Loved Ones

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Moving, People, Mountain

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Want, More Money

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.

  Joel Plaskett

  Mind, Family And Friends, Spending

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• Social media is great because you can get information out there quick or you can use it as a ministry tool, but when you're on it all the time and you're not spending time with people and you're not sitting there looking at someone in the eyes and asking, "How are you doing?" that's when it's out of balance.

  Jeremy Camp

  Eye, Media, People

  "A conversation with award-winning recording artist Jeremy Camp". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with that particular set of characters, I can't help but think about all the ways the book could be different, the small, insignificant tweaks that no one but me would ever notice.

  Jillian Medoff

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?

  Tony Blackburn

  Love Is, Talking, People

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Of course, spending time with family is always good. I love the outdoors, so if I get a chance to go out and hike or bike around, that's always great. If I don't have time to leave, just listening to some music that I love reenergizes me and gives me that break I need to go back to whatever it is I'm doing.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Giving, Listening, Needs

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

  Jerry Bridges

  Practice, Talking, Faithful

  Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself

  Bradley Cooper

  Jesus, Humility, Reflection

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• I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

  Adam Morris

  Writing, Reflection, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Good Friend

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm always satisfied with going to soup kitchens or homeless shelters. A big one for me is children's hospitals. I love spending time with kids, rooting for them, making them laugh. Any small act of kindness is just as important as a donation. So volunteer. Go out there and see how you can make a difference and help someone.

  Ashley Benson

  Kindness, Kids, Volunteer

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with the kids I was just writing about from Guatemala, who survived being kidnapped and fleeing violence, it was nice to just sit down in their living room and play bingo with them, go to dinner with the family. And sometimes not thinking about it in such a mechanistic "I am now coming to report and get what I need" way, but just spending time, helps you see a more natural version of who they are too.

  Sarah Stillman

  Nice, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time. I realized this isn't the life I want to live being locked up 24 hours a day.

  John Starks

  Brother, Jail Time, Want

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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