Hours Quotes · Page 46

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

— Emily Eden

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

— Jim Gaffigan

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

— Red Buttons

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

— Soren Kierkegaard

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm…

— Teri Hatcher

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

— Richard Crashaw

I wouldn't recommend wearing tight Spandex for hours. It don't half chafe.

— Brett Goldstein

New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we've…

— Richard Branson

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other…

— Thomas Jefferson

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the…

— Roy Ayers

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be…

— Clara Zetkin

The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours…

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for…

— Lucy Christopher

I've heard that Oasis or Coldplay will sell tickets, but they can't sell records. They sold out Madison Square Garden in three…

— Jez Williams

Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But…

— Bryan Procter

If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like…

— Rainbow Rowell

The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The…

— Anonymous

I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it…

— Jodi Picoult

Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life…

— Leo Tolstoy

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into…

— Helen Garner

It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was…

— Karen Abbott

When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that…

— Felicia Day

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

— William Shakespeare

I run a lot. I love running. I try to run at least half an hour a day.

— Elisabeth Harnois

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother…

— Scott Adams

The problem with human beings is that they can't sit alone in a room for more than an hour.

— Robert Greene

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five…

— Rod Stewart

When I was given a tricycle, aged eight, I'd disappear for hours and do my own thing.

— Paul Young

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

— Brian Eno

Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.

— Nicole Lapin

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours…

— Anson Mount

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

— Tia Mowry

Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour.

— Jerry Seinfeld

You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

— Plato

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

— Theophile Gautier

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but…

— Nicolas Cage

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

— Henry James