“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
Compare: "Of all the money e'er I had, I spent it in good company. And all the harm e'er I've done, Alas! it was to none but me." The Parting Glass.
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Restless Farewell
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 9
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses
“On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any.”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
Source: Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
I Walk the Line
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
“I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Second Chances
Jet Li (1963) Chinese martial artist and actor
As quoted in Jet Li Interview Transcript https://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/talkasia.li.script/ in CNN (January 29, 2003)
Isaac Asimov book Puzzles of the Black Widowers
Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 132
General sources
“I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
90th Birthday Reflections (2007)
Context: I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future. As I try to survive on 15 hours sleep a day, I have plenty of time to enjoy vivid dreams. Being completely wheel-chaired doesn't stop my mind from roaming the universe — on the contrary!