The Hours Quotes

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

Let's stick together." "Well, you're going to have to wait here for me there: I'm going to the bathroom." "But how long are you going to be?" "Oh, three hours?" "Rocky . . .

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don't care how busy they are.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

Like all mothers, mother nature will tuck you safely into bed at night only to come into your room two hours later in a scary mask and threaten you with a nail

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.

Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.

I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

I have to get at least 10 hours of sleep or it's not a good day!

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.