The Hours Quotes

It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!

I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink; but if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a non-alcoholic.

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me.

In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism.

I was out on the shooting range twice a week [for Skyfall]. I worked out with a personal trainer for two hours a day, five days a week. So, it was quite demanding!

I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a ‘pradhan mantri’, but a ‘pradhan sevak’.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.

It's always good to go from a heavy song to a softer one. It helps having the attention of the audience for the whole show - three hours of the same songs for the whole show is boring.

I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.

I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome.

I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

The process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.