Trivia is a game played by those who realize that they…

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he…

— Aceyalone

And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior…

— Angela Carter

As part of my misspent youth, I spent too much time in the sun, and every few months, I have to go and have…

— John McCain

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

— James Thurber

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

— Kevin Bacon

In my misspent youth, I was risky.

— Jason Statham

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

— Herbert Spencer

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

— Anita Brookner

“Not everybody benefits from a misspent youth.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Let's just call it an artifact of a misspent youth.”

— Brent Weeks

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

— Rob Lowe

To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute…

— Hallie Erminie Rives

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

— John McCarthy

“The idea of a sandwich as a snack goes back to Roman times. Scandinavians perfected the technique with the Danish open-faced sandwich, or smorroebrod,…

— DeeDee Stovel

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

— Susan Griffin