Hours Quotes · Page 47

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

— Tom Stoppard

Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

— John Piper

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see…

— Olga Kurylenko

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

— Lin Yutang

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

— Mason Cooley

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

— Gail Godwin

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours…

— T Bone Burnett

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

— Anonymous

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is…

— Lord Chesterfield

You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something…

— Eric Heiden

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into…

— Michael Crichton

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for…

— Haruki Murakami

When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as…

— Jeff Merkley

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I…

— Bill Bryson

My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other's eyes and talk for three hours…

— Jim Parrack

All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in…

— George Orwell

One night I couldn't sleep. It was like 2:00 in the morning. I was thinking, 'What can I do?' I'm watching TV.…

— Adam Sandler

I'd like to do more TV stuff that is live action, but I am so totally happy doing as much voice work…

— Amber Nash

Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down…

— Joseph Furphy

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was…

— Anne McCaffrey

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and…

— George Bancroft

She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to…

— Philip Pullman

In fact, one of the funny stories from that set [of Hail, Caesar!] is we were shooting my scene, and around lunchtime,…

— David Krumholtz

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

— Jodi Picoult

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for…

— Lee Adams

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

— David Ives

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

— Irving Stone

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

— Stan Musial

I love to walk. Back home, I do that every day. I leave home and walk, and go walk for hours.

— Gregorio Sablan

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

— Kathryn Minshew

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

— Charles Kettering

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with…

— Nicole Kidman

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

— William Shakespeare

Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

— Emma Forrest

I wouldn't want to spend every waking hour asking people for money. A, I can't do it, it's just not my nature.

— Rush Limbaugh

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

— Evan Esar

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

— Robert Crippen

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

— Julian Bream