Hours Quotes
Sad Quotes about Hours

When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University
and learned within 24 hours to be ready
to speak at the drop of a hat,
and I learned something more, the trustees were expected
to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln

If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare.
They are consumed in twelve minutes.
Half-times take twelve minutes.
This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
- David M. Shoup

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
- Al Boliska

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
- Ambrose Bierce

All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually
get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens
to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
- Doug Larson

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams
and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined,
you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

I want to have children, but my friends scare me.
One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours.
I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
- Rita Rudner

I have learned, that if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may
become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
- Mary Wilson Little

It's fun working on the set...
I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day,
and I also study about five of those hours.
It can be tiring, but it's fun!
- Mila Kunis

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained
quite unaltered through the course of hours.
- Thomas Mann

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight,
keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up
on the screen is perfect.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way.
- Wink Martindale

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
- Benjamin Disraeli

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they
were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack,
working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
- Willie Aames

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice.
I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep,
it's like writing a grocery list.
- Ann Patchett

Dick Cheney said he was running again.
He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.'
Yeah,
that's always the sign of a man in good health,
isn't it?
- David Letterman

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great,
great pride that people are willing to give me two
or three hours of their busy lives.
- John Lasseter

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience
24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience.
It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
- Xander Berkeley

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
- Gene Tierney

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
- Sergei Bubka

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours.
Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has
been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
- Samuel Butler

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work
with only six hours in which to do it.
- Anthony Trollope

By the time you get dressed, drive out there,
play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours.
There are better things you can do with your time.
- Richard M. Nixon

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those
who follow country business,
are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles,
however important those may be.
- William Falconer

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure
that they are not the same hours.
- T. Boone Pickens

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained.
For those two hours he has been in a different place
with totally different people.
- Roald Dahl

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know
me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and
women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
- Anna Freud

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed
to earn or use comp time.
They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done -
especially at these salary levels.
- Jodi Rell

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year
with one-on-one attention,
a student can get one grade level higher.
- Dave Eggers

I had stories that needed more space than the hour
and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
- Manuel Puig

If you get a book which is 600 pages,
you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages.
In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
- Dino De Laurentiis

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
- Arthur Baer

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait
for the close of a baseball game,
or anything else for that matter.
- Al Spalding

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years,
before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day,
and before then 14 hours a day.
It was all I had ever done.
- Michael Schenker

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks.
It's just such a curious thing.
- Simon Callow

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running,
hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
- Sugar Ray Leonard

The inconvenience, the glaring lights,
the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every
scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than
a real mastery of love technique.
- Ivor Novello

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again.
Relentless.
Pre-production was almost harder than filming.
I was all over the city every day.
It was really exhausting.
- Ed Harris

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
- Milton Berle

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media,
day and night.
Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours
a day and that's a problem.
- Michael Ignatieff

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to
hundreds of hours a year.
You must choose them well.
- Joe Henderson

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life-
it is very slow and boring.
I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
- Rick Moranis

When I was younger, studying classical music,
I really had to put in the time.
Three hours a day is not even nice -
you have to put in six.
- Alicia Keys

You could do a scene that takes 15 hours,
but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes.
The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in;
it took eight hours.
- Kel Mitchell

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm.
I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up.
But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup.
It took close to two hours.
- Sanjay Dutt

So you get two good hours on the field about every day,
you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room
and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.
- Steve Spurrier

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work
24 hours a day for you and never,
ever burn his audience.
- Howard Stern

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed
studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher,
I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
- Simon Newcomb

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

It's a staggering transition for high school students
that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.
- John Gardner

Then, there was Cary Grant.
He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.
- Red Buttons

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car,
it is time to spend a few hours on history.
- Bo Bennett

I was up until all hours of the night,
listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
- Joely Fisher

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.
- Jamie Luner

I am invariably late for appointments -
sometimes as much as two hours.
I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong,
and too pleasing.
- Marilyn Monroe

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
- William Shakespeare

I work hard.
I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.
- Graham Roberts

But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip,
and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day,
this little guy's lashing away.
- Brian Lumley

I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously.
Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple
of hours in hair and makeup.
- Rebecca Romijn

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work.
Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
- Charles Evans Hughes

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's
life than in all the philosophies.
- Raoul Vaneigem