The Hours Quotes

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.

I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

I always try to get at least eight hours of sleep each night. It's the best thing I can do for my body.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do every work thing.

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.

I only count the hours that shine.

Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

People will say to me, "Well, nobody really believes this stuff." But as a reporter I go out and talk to people who do believe it. And they can talk about it for hours.

Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid.

I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.

Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.

I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

I see no issue with [Donald] Trump spending 48 hours in Scotland.Whether accidental or intentional, the fact that he was there when Britain voted to leave the EU was a good thing for him.

I eat like a maniac when I am sick. My attitude is if I am going to die anyway in the next 24-48 hours, I mind as well live it up.

And he was like "The sedative in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk -" -Abby

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

I'm lucky, I guess. I only really need five or so hours of sleep.