24 Hours Quotes

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally.

I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.

The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

In the midnight hour I can feel your power...

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory. But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

I love that magazine, man - Victoria's Secret - and it comes, like, every three hours.

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.