Hours Quotes

• So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Wish
  • Sacrifice

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Competition
  • Everyday

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

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Couple
  • Practice
  • Worth

• 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

• There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Night
  • Period

• 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

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

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Look

• Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Everyday
  • Week
  • Workout

• 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

• 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

• You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • You
  • Television
  • Hours

• 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

• I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Moments
  • Film
  • Tea

• No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Amount

• I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Black
  • Tonight
  • Barack

• Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Live
  • Aid
  • Rehearsal

• 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

• 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

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