The Hours Quotes

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

I did the 23 hour nose-route to the top of El Capitan in 6 hours and 18 minutes! I can make this work.

An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends & have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they're able to time travel.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.

We only have two hours to change people's lives.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

Hours fly, Flowers die: New days, New ways: Pass by! Love stays.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

Work eight hours a day for a living and many more hours a day making movies and you'll work all your life to be a success overnight.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

Every bite you eat stays in mouth for two minutes, for two hours in stomach and for two month on hips.

From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.

Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.