Hours Quotes · Page 58

It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

— Aziz Ansari

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

— Denise Van Outen

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian…

— William Gibson

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

— Al Boliska

I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

— Fernando Pessoa

Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin

There are 24 hours in a day so there's no excuse for not getting things done.

— SONYA PARKER

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

— James Wolcott

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea…

— Victor Hugo

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer…

— Ben H. Winters

I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in…

— Jon Gordon

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit…

— Keith Fullerton Whitman

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of…

— Washington Irving

Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But…

— Bill Cahan

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do?…

— M. Scott Peck

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed…

— Edmund Burke

In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each…

— Francis Chan

People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a…

— Louis C. K

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when…

— Phillips Brooks

I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way…

— Sarah Blasko

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write…

— Bret Easton Ellis

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?

— Leah Busque

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and…

— Howard Metzenbaum

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

— Gail Caldwell

I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

— Marguerite Moreau

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

— Rita Rudner

Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'

— Damien Fahey

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

— John Burroughs

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

— Nick Vujicic

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

— Grimes

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

— Andy Roddick

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a…

— Francis Scott Key

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

— Henri Barbusse

Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task…

— John Caples

To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.

— Brady Corbet

When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be…

— Jennie Finch

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

— Glenn Gould