The Hours Quotes

I worked in Toronto for two days. And by work I mean sit in a trailer for 15 hours, say two lines, and leave.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.

Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

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