Eight Hour Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

• I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement. — August Spies
• I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced… — Thomas A. Edison
• You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to… — Howard Dean
• Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few… — B. C. Forbes
• Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who… — Jonah Goldberg
• Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. — J. G. Ballard
• In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like… — Iain Banks
• It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days… — Anthony Doerr
• I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was… — David Mamet
• I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron… — Evita Peron
• You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. — Robert Smith
• How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting… — Studs Terkel
• When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I… — Michael Birch

Who Wrote These Eight Hour Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 13 Eight Hour Quotes as follows:

• 1 Eight Hour Quote by August Spies
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Thomas A. Edison
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Howard Dean
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by B. C. Forbes
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Jonah Goldberg
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by J. G. Ballard
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Iain Banks
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Anthony Doerr
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by David Mamet
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Evita Peron
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Robert Smith
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Studs Terkel
• 1 Eight Hour Quote by Michael Birch