I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half,… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up… — Plautus Copy Share Image
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When we're on tour, probably we don't go 24 hours without someone asking us where we came up with the name They… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything... — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I had yet to be a mother, but I would have thought it difficult to forget something it took thirty-seven hours of… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour… — John J. Raskob Copy Share Image
In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just… — Benedict Wong Copy Share Image
I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly,… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You have the… — Diana Rowland Copy Share Image
Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break.… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast… — Oliver Evans Copy Share Image
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
