Hours Quotes

• 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
  • Long
  • Play
  • Tired

• And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Waiting

• Our American money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.

  

  Bernard Lietaer
  • Guy
  • Stupid
  • Matter

• 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
  • Change
  • Pleasure
  • Melancholy

• There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Baby
  • Differences

• 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
  • Progress
  • Enthusiasm
  • Perseverance

• I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

  

  Zona Gale
  • Time
  • Men
  • Sleep

• 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
  • Song
  • Romantic
  • Hours

• 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
  • Work
  • Hours
  • Sandbox

• I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.

  

  Sandy Gallin
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • House

• 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
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Computer

• I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'

  

  Willow Shields
  • Fun
  • Hours
  • Excited

• 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
  • People
  • Energy
  • Creative

• Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Situation
  • Accepting
  • Responsible

• So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Enjoy
  • Pleasure
  • Spoil

• Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hours

• 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
  • Time
  • Night
  • Week

• I can talk 10 hours about football. From the moment I leave home, I talk about football.

  

  Ivan Rakitić
  • Football
  • Hours
  • Talk

• For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

  

  William Lipscomb
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Creativity

• Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Hours
  • Preparation
  • Four

• One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Fool

• I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Winning

• Sometimes after a few hours sleep I have a little grizzle but I very rarely bite back.

  

  Keith Charles Flint The Prodigy
  • Sleep
  • Hours
  • Grizzle

• What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Father

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