Waste Quotes - Page 21

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Don't waste the pretty

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.