The Hours Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

You might be a redneck if you can amuse yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.

Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

I can seriously spend five hours making one dinner.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.