The Hours Quotes

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you're ugly.

I probably spend six hours on just my mascara. I like to get that "Hi I want to ******* kill you" look.

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

If you ever find that you only have an hour to live .... spend it with a liberal and it will seem like a year.

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.

I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.

We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.

When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.