Hours Quotes · Page 17

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

— Anonymous

Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down…

— Tana French

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,…

— Victor Hugo

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing…

— Hugo Weaving

I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on…

— Damon Lindelof

I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word.…

— Harriet Doerr

For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.

— Darren Shan

There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the…

— Dennis Miller

I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with…

— Maria V. Snyder

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

— Anthony Foxx

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone…

— Ovid

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted…

— George Washington

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

— Bill Cosby

I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around…

— Roger Craig Smith

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

— Lori Greiner

My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I…

— Nicholas Sparks

Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my…

— Mariah Carey

Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward…

— Chester Carlson

I'm stressed when I don't have crazy hours.

— Mandira Bedi

It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

— Ron Perlman

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed…

— Samuel Johnson

One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.

— Thomas Campbell