I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I was cast in this commercial called "Hour After Hour." It was for a deodorant that won't wear off. And [Susan Sarandon]… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness. — George Lois Copy Share Image
What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour. — Carl Shapiro Copy Share Image
