The Hours Quotes
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.
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.
This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.
I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.
I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.
June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.
The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
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.
People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.
Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
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.
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.
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.
Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.
We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.
The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.
If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.
When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.
In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
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 have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
I'm not giving you any options here. We're doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.
I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.
Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.
...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.