Hours Quotes · Page 33

I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.

— George Stephen

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn…

— Ferdinand Foch

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until…

— Scott Glenn

Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.

— William Taylor

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the…

— Oswald J. Smith

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

— Richard Powers

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

— John Piper

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I…

— Orson Welles

I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do…

— Richard Riordan

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his…

— Roald Dahl

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my…

— Michael Birch

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist…

— Henry David Thoreau

Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and…

— Alec Guinness

I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I…

— Henry James

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will…

— Wayne Dyer

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future,…

— Arthur W. Pink

America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America?…

— Norman Mailer

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to…

— Stephen Chbosky

My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and…

— Richard Branson

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

— Kathleen Norris

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

— Publilius Syrus

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

— Vladimir Lenin

When you finally get something together after hours of work and it's good, you know it's not for nothing!

— Taylor Townsend

This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.

— Gideon Gono

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

— James Martineau

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

— Matt Stone

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.

— Yogi Berra

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

— Betty Smith

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between…

— R. Lee Ermey

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

— John Grisham

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

— Dave Eggers

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.

— Bill Hicks

There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet…

— Anne Rice