The Hours Quotes

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.

When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

Really if it's an hour or two after you've fallen asleep because you're in such a deep sleep at that point.

I, for one, am exhausted. I’ve been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?

You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing.

I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all.

Now you'll have to wait for hours in line for medical care instead of immediately not getting any.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.

The amazing thing about working in social media and technology is that you can get to know the sharpest thinkers from around the world without having to spend hours on planes!

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

I've spent thousands of hours under water. And even in the deepest dive I have ever made, 2.5 miles (about 4 kilometers) down, I saw trash and other tangible evidence of our presence.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.