The Hours Quotes

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

Listen to people, gain advice and gain the respect of your fellow team-mates. Make sure you put in the hours and you'll have fun.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.