Hours Quotes - page 2

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. (James Thurber)
Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.
Graham Greene
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
Jack Kerouac
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
Steve Martin
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
O Love what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
Jane Goodall
Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers--in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
Arvo Pärt
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. (Ambrose Bierce)
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'
Steven Wright
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
Robert Nozick
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Eric Idle
Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.
Dale Carnegie
I think crime pays. The hours are good and you travel a lot.
Woody Allen
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
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
Thomas Friedman
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed How sweet their memory still But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
William Cowper
Pernicious weed whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
William Cowper
I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
Henry Fielding
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
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.
Jane Austen
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again.
William Butler Yeats