The Hours Quotes

Oh God, you know what would be really good for me is a dog locater - it would save me the hours that I have to spend looking for my dog.

No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

The Argentineans practice on the court for two hours a day, then they must practice in front of a mirror for two more hour saying 'I'm not guilty.'

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of her husband, a comatose werewolf dandy, and a French inventor.

My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.