Hours Quotes

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

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

Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.

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.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

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

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.

It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.