The Hours Quotes
To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.
Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.
I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.
You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.
We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.
They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.
The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering
I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.