Cathleen Schine Quotes

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

I have wasted my hours.

Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.