Sentence examples for doing a waste of time from inspiring English sources

"The only reason I like girls," Amis wrote in a letter to Larkin in 1953, "is that I want to fuck them, which is adolescent, cheap, irresponsible, not worth doing, a waste of time, not much fun anyway really, a needless distraction from my real vocation, destructive of any real power of understanding women which as a novelist HOOHOO should be important to me..

"The only reason I like girls," Amis wrote in a letter to Larkin in 1953, "is that I want to fuck them, which is adolescent, cheap, irresponsible, not worth doing, a waste of time, not much fun anyway really, a needless distraction from my real vocation, destructive of any real power of understanding women which as a novelist HOOHOO should be important to me...

"Never once in my life did my parents ever say, 'What you're doing is a waste of time,' " Giacchino said.

I saw other people going straight into graduate jobs and what I was doing seemed a waste of time.

There's also something sad about browsing, though a tugging awareness that what you're doing is a waste of time, that your work is still all ahead of you.

Still, she added, "I don't think all the work we've done is a waste of time, because we had to pull the community together and show that we're a force, and we did that".

Trying to appeal to the moderate voter, as Washington Democrats were always trying to do, was a waste of time".

She wanted to avoid that, especially tonight, because if there was anything she believed about marriage it was that arguing the way her parents did was a waste of time.

Studying while having something in mind that you want to do is a waste of time.

"If you take a morning to decide what to do, it becomes a waste of time.

"In one sense," said Elizabeth Pearson, a retired postal worker who was on the jury, "it does seem like a waste of time".