24 Hours Quotes

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.

I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.

I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

I got an extra hour's nap.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Every day FM radio ran out of hours, not music.

You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.

For two hours, some guy followed me around with a pooper scooper.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.