“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967Related quotes
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
On his career in the US Coast Guard, as quoted http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcAlexHaley/history.asp at the official site for the Medium Endurance Cutter USCGC Alex Haley http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcAlexHaley/default.asp <br class="br">Context: You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
“Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
Peter Shaffer (1926–2016) English playwright and screenwriter
Source: Five Finger Exercise
“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Declaration at his 85th birthday party (6 January 1963), as quoted in The Best of Ralph McGill : Selected Columns (1980) by Ralph McGill, edited by Michael Strickland, Harry Davis, and Jeff Strickland, p. 82
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
As quoted without source in The School Musician Director and Teacher Vol. 43 (1971) by the American School Band Directors' Association
