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Quotes About Hour

It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.
~ Jonathan Banks
When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.
~ Sarah Hughes
I don't have courage in my convictions and I'm not interested in serious things or politics: if you're doing an hour of standup, you should talk about a few serious things.
~ Alex Horne
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
~ Plato
and since here we have passed our lives in love and concord, we wish that one and the same hour may take us both from life, that I may not live to see her grave, nor be laid in my own by her.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.
~ Nora Roberts
Linc and his date, who he thought had left an hour before, were either held hostage or enthralled on the sofa
~ Nora Roberts
Meanwhile, Milo had been in the Senate on that day until it was dismissed and then came home. He changed out of his formal clothes, waited for a little while his wife got herself ready--you all know how that goes-- and set out at the hour when Clodius, if he had been planning on coming back to Rome that day, would have returned.
~ Cicero
Life is too short to spend an hour and a half on a mystery that will ultimately be solved by a cat.
~ Colin Bateman
Like the best storms, rush hour starts out as a slight drizzle, then becomes unholy deluge.
~ Colson Whitehead
The light at this hour, on this street, is the secondhand gray of ghetto twilight, a dull mercury color.
~ Colson Whitehead
The last day has come for our Dardan land. This is the hour which no effort of ours can alter. We Trojans are no more: no more is Ilium;no more the splendour of Teucrian glory. All now belongs to Argos; it is Jupiter's remorseless will.
~ Virgil
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
~ Virginia Woolf
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.
~ Virginia Woolf
Big Ben was beginning to strike, first the warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable.
~ Virginia Woolf
The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.
~ Virginia Woolf
Never will I wake those echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again, I vowed as I descended the steps in anger. Still an hour remained before luncheon, and what was one to do?
~ Virginia Woolf
and even now, at this hour, discreet old dowagers were shooting out in their motor cars on errands of mystery;
~ Virginia Woolf
Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. However, I am being left in that ignorance which is tolerable only to those living at liberty
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And I still walk the sidewalk mumbling something about how it will all be fine Fine is its own crazy village on the Rhine Fine is the name of the cuckoo-clock maker Fine is the word the cuckoo cries every hour after hour on the hour— scrambling out of its dark little hole like something being chased with a knife by Time
~ Laura Kasischke
The last hour waiting patiently on a tray for her somewhere in the future. The spoon slipping quietly into the beautiful soup.
~ Laura Kasischke
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
~ Charles de Secondat
Ten minutes, good, past eleven.
~ Charles Dickens