The Hours Quotes

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.

Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

Getting out of the house is the secret to staying alert through the droning hours leading up to the big meal, even if you don't go farther than 7-Eleven for another six-pack.

I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

I love to draw. I spend hours every day drawing.

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

The downside to celebrity is when you make it a 24 hour thing. I think celebrity is about turning it on and turning it off.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

I understand the horrors of having no insurance, but, believe me, eight hours of sleep and good meals are NOT going to prevent you from getting sick. Don't gamble with your life; it's a stupid bet.

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

My wife, Bojana, is a doctor; we both work intense hours and have months when we barely see each other. It isnt easy, but we realize nobody said it was supposed to be!

I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in bed at 11 p.m., sleep well and get up early, without an alarm clock.

No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for four hours at a time.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport.