Hours Quotes

• Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Alone
  • Somebody
  • Get Out

• Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Perfect
  • Years
  • Hours

• I really love learning and working long hours.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Long
  • Learning
  • Working

• In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Look

• People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • People
  • Messy
  • Combining

• When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Hours
  • Minutes
  • Relativity

• I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Night
  • Week
  • Stronger

• I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

  

  Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
  • Working
  • Week
  • Hours

• I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I'm really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Trying
  • Rest
  • Professional

• The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Stuck

• I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Mexican

• A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Couple
  • Practice
  • Worth

• I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Day
  • Hours

• Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Relief

• I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Sleep
  • Hours

• I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Devotion

• I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Stories
  • Imagine

• If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Hours
  • White
  • Choke

• The lights are better, safer, and start at around $20. They use less battery power. Normally you get 8 to 10 hours of battery life on a standard light. You can get 150 hours with the LED.

  

  Mark Hall Casting Crowns
  • Light
  • Standards
  • Batteries

• I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Training
  • Skate
  • Incorporate

• Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Ends
  • Quiet

• There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Time
  • World
  • Certain

• We've spent so many hours trying to get drunk drivers off the road in so many ways. It makes you really mad to see that, after all that, people still do it.

  

  Tom Johnston The Doobie Brothers
  • Road
  • Ways
  • Drivers

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