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Quotes About Spare

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level.
~ Phil Baker
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
~ Pierre Corneille
Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.
~ Mohamed El-Erian
In my spare time, I volunteer at my daughters' schools so I can stay involved with the activities and parent/teacher community.
~ Belinda Johnson
I think about the movie 'Jaws.' They had this state-of-the-art animatronic shark, but it kept breaking down, which kept delaying the filming. So, they had to use it very sparingly, but it became why the film was so good because you never saw the shark. You only heard about it, and it was suggested.
~ Tom Ellis
Now there's us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it's ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable.
~ Joss Whedon
adopted the spare prose of a journalist, with an emphasis on time, date, and place
~ Daniel Silva
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
~ Josh Billings
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.
~ Hermann Biggs
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
~ Bob Geldof
Seneca observes that "chastity comes with time to spare, lechery has never a moment."11
~ William B. Irvine
God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.
~ C. S. Lewis
You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.
~ Lauryn Hill
Our greatest good and what we least can spare is hope.
~ John Armstrong
I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.
~ Dylan Moran
I saw your shower curtain hit the back lawn. You'll need to replace that." "I have a spare," I said. "Why on earth would you have a spare shower curtain?" he asked. "In case I need to haul off a body," I said.
~ Jana Deleon
Some years ago a prayer was read from the pulpit in every church in Greece, asking the Almighty to spare the Greeks from the 'scourge' of foreign tourism. When
~ David Ogilvy
I used to think the 109th bead was an emergency spare. Like the extra button on a fancy sweater, or the youngest son in a royal family.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
When I started going to see Celtic, it was just before Henrik Larsson signed. We used to try to skip into the games. You would stand outside, waiting for someone who had a spare ticket and then give him the wee puppy eyes in the hope he'd give it to you!
~ Robert Snodgrass
The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho is immeasurable. We don't have Italian tailors we can spare here.
~ Howard Jacobson
We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could
~ Robert Frost
A big, studly football jock like me? I got plenty of blood to spare. For you, I have anything to spare.
~ Kristin Cast
Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.
~ Eleanor of Aquitaine
I was changing my head. It feels good to have the old one back on. And now I have a spare, which is nice.
~ Derek Landy