The world is too much with us late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!

Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day and that's in the morning when I shave.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient a lot more real time a lot less waste.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel and before I know I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

Geez all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.