The Hours Quotes

Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours.

You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.

Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

There's this idea that everybody has to have everything right away... I wasn't the superstar. I had to work really long hours for it.

Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

Oh, I would while away the hours, Wanking in the flowers, my heart all full of song, I'd be gliding all the lilies as I waved about my willie, If I only had a schlong.

It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.

Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.

Think 8 hours, work 2 hours.

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.

The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes

I do for one full hour non-stop of 2,000 sit ups and then 6 sets of leg rise.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

Never say never, but there are not enough hours in the day!

I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.