The Hours Quotes

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything.

The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

Television has its opportunities. It allows you more hours; there's more demand, and it keeps you working. If you can do something innovating and fresh, it can be very rewarding.

In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.

O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.

Women add zest to the unlicensed hours.

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.

We don't have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can go anywhere

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.

How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

I was happy working for £6 an hour.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.

Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I just thought his reporting seemed familiar.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

Every time I feel depressed or frustrated, I just have to drive on the highway during rush hours, then I feel very grateful I don't have to do this everyday.

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.