Quotes with hours

  • You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
  • Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
  • The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
  • I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
  • The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
  • January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
  • Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
  • Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
  • 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.
  • I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
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  • William Shakespeare Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Roger Staubach Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
    Roger Staubach
     
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  • James Cash Penney Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
    James Cash Penney
    American businessman and entrepreneur (1875 - 1971)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Horace Mann Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Francis Bacon To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Horace Mann Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Milton Berle A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
    Milton Berle
    American comedian and actor (1908 - 2002)
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • William Butler Yeats A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • William Frederick Book A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • Bill Dedman After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Al Boliska Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
    Al Boliska
    Canadian actor and writer
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  • Butch Trucks As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Anne Tyler At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Elmore Leonard Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bart Gordon Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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  • Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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