Hours Quotes · Page 35

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

— W. C. Fields

We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

— Amy Carmichael

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

— Warren Buffett

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.

— Pippa Middleton

Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys." "Just most waking hours?

— Rick Riordan

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for…

— Edward Young

Tell me everything about you. You can go on for hours. I don't mind.

— Ramandeep Singh

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower…

— John Clare

Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war,…

— Erma Bombeck

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of…

— Don DeLillo

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you…

— Charles Dudley Warner

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for…

— Craig Charles

whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and…

— Felix Dennis

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying…

— Maria Mitchell

Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people…

— Judd Apatow

Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got…

— Alessandro Nivola

My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that…

— Thomas Paine

I'm living in L.A., which is hard to get around. I live way out in the suburbs, it's hard for me to…

— Rob Riggle

I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls…

— Margaret Bourke-White

I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the…

— L. Neil Smith

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

— Steve Martin

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

— Robin Sharma

Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall…

— Jimmy Page

I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.

— Jennie Garth

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be…

— Thomas Carlyle

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

— James Dean

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that…

— Annie Dillard

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an…

— Smith Wigglesworth

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

— Mika Brzezinski

VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become…

— Dan Bricklin

Welcome to We Day! Since last year, WE have volunteered over 1.7 million hours of our time!

— Craig Kielburger

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

— William Wilberforce

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

— Mahatma Gandhi