Hours Quotes
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There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".
William Hazlitt
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We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal...
Edgar Allan Poe
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I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.
Rue McClanahan
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I never realised there was so much of it,' Sandra muttered. 'Hours. I feel every minute.
Annabel Pitcher
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I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.
Terrence Mitchell Riley
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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
Virginia Woolf
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I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
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I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.
Sebastian Thrun
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Grief makes one hour ten.
William Shakespeare
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Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.
Britta Phillips
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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
Karl Lagerfeld
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
William Hazlitt
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I can talk 10 hours about football. From the moment I leave home, I talk about football.
Ivan Rakitić
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If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.
Alice Cooper
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Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
Bonaventure
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Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.
William Muir
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What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!
William Shakespeare
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I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the weekend. I'm not going to be working while I'm with my son in the morning and in the evening.
David Plotz
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To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.
Joshua Foer
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Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
Paul J. Meyer
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Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.
Brian Regan
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Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.
George Linley
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
Seneca the Younger