Hour Quotes - page 5

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment to toe that line. (Henry David Thoreau)
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. View quote
George Eliot
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? View quote
Tennessee Williams
It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather. View quote
Louis MacNeice
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. View quote
Robert Frost
The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold! View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. View quote
Norman Mailer
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Learn that the present hour alone is man's. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time. (Alphonse de Lamartine)
Nothing surpasses the pleasures of idleness: even if the end of the world were to come, I would not leave my bed at an ungodly hour. View quote
Emil Cioran
At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. View quote
David Ogilvy
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. View quote
Wilkie Collins
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later. View quote
Ray Liotta
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. View quote
Helen Hayes
Not Heavn itself upon the past has powr But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. View quote
John Dryden
O my brother Futurists! All of you, look at yourselves!.... In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I proclaim that the hour is nigh when men with broad temples and steel chins will give birth magnificently, with a single trust of their bulging will, to giants with flawless gestures. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow. (Elizabeth Gaskell)
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. View quote
Cyril Connolly
What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love? View quote
Carol Ann Duffy
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. View quote
Victor Borge