Hours famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
-- A. E. Housman -
Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.
-- Abbi Glines -
I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
-- Alex Haley -
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
-- Alexander Pope -
My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!
-- Algis Budrys -
Yea, when mortality dissolves,  Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens  Is lighted by the smile of God!
-- Alice Cary -
Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.
-- Amanda Hocking -
Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.
-- Amy Weber -
It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day...
-- Andrew McDermott -
Twitter is currently valued at $8 billion, or $1 for every hour it has wasted.
-- Andy Borowitz -
For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.
-- Angela Carter -
We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
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 -
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
-- Anna Paquin -
Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?
-- Anne McKevitt -
I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
-- Anne Rice -
She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.
-- Anne Stuart -
When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.
-- Archpoet -
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
-- Arthur Rackham -
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.
-- Arvind Kejriwal -
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
-- Ayn Rand -
Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.
-- Aziz Ansari -
It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.
-- Aziz Ansari -
A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.
-- Barbara Pym -
Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
-- Barbara Sher -
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 -
You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
-- Beanie Sigel -
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
-- Ben Horowitz -
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
-- Ben Kingsley -
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin -
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.
-- Bernie Sanders -
'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
-- Betty Smith -
The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
-- Bill Bryson -
I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.
-- Bill Gates -
What is "martinizing" and why does it only take one hour?
-- Bill Maher -
I can't even imagine what it's like to run for 5 or 6 hours.
-- Bill Rodgers -
We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
-- Billy Corgan -
If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.
-- Blake Shelton -
Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
-- Bob Dylan -
...in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking...
-- Bob Dylan -
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
-- Bob Dylan -
Once you wrestke Rikki Atakki, an hour later you want to wrestle him again.
-- Bobby Heenan -
The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.
-- Brenna Yovanoff -
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
-- Brent Weeks -
I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.
-- Brett Favre -
You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
-- Brett Ratner -
Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
-- Brett Ratner -
I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
-- Brian Eno -
Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.
-- Brian Tracy -
You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.
-- Brian Tracy -
I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.
-- Britt Ekland -
I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.
-- Bruce Vilanch -
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
-- Bryan Ferry -
When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
-- Buddy Hackett -
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
-- C. S. Lewis -
What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
-- Campbell Scott -
I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do every work thing.
-- Carl Honore -
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
-- Caroline Rhea -
The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.
-- Carrie Underwood -
It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.
-- Carson Kressley -
Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.
-- Casper Smart -
Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.
-- Catherine Bell -
I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen -
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.
-- Cesar Romero -
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
-- Charles Macomb Flandrau -
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.
-- Chris Matthews -
I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
-- Chrissy Teigen -
I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography
-- Christina Milian -
I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.
-- Christophe Lemaitre -
A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.
-- Claire Danes -
The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.
-- Claude M. Bristol
