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Quotes About Hours

in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking...
~ Bob Dylan
Caught by surprise, Kelly had gone dark for several hours. He'd had to call his wife and explain that he had no choice but to accept after being offered one of the most important jobs in the world via tweet.
~ Bob Woodward
According to our calculations, just to reach their 1973 standard of living, they must work 245 more hours, or 6plus extra weeks a year.'8
~ Juliet B. Schor
countervailing pressures, the most important of which was the trade union movement, which waged a successful hundred-year struggle for shorter hours. But once this quest ended after the Second World War, reductions in hours virtually ceased. Not long after unions gave up the fight, the American worker's hours began to rise.
~ Juliet B. Schor
A good death, everyone agreed, to die at home in bed as Prudence Jaxon had. But Peter had been at her side through the final hours and knew how terrible it had been for her, how much she'd suffered. No, there was no such thing as a good death.
~ Justin Cronin
It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.
~ Kaitlin Olson
A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.
~ Ashish Sharma
I was once told that flying involves long hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of extreme fright.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
It is recommendable to study even at unusual hours: The Prophet woke up in the night and had his household awakened in order to exhort them.—The Prophet prayed and exhorted people after nightfall.
~ Franz Rosenthal
And for our work—though showers And autumn frosts destroy— Our greatest pay's not measured In fruit and flower we've treasured, But in the golden hours That brought us health and joy!
~ Frederick Frye Rockwell
In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.
~ Bram Cohen
What I need to do," Wayne said, "is get the whole city drunk." "Or, you know, advocate workers' rights to bring down working hours, improve conditions, and meet a base minimum of pay.
~ Brandon Sanderson
By now it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It
~ Brandon Sanderson
Do you like the new dress", Syl asked, wagging her covered safehand while standing in the air. "Looks strange on you.""I'll have you know, I put a *ton* of thought into it. I spent positively *hours* thinking of just how - Oh! What's that?
~ Brandon Sanderson
I kind of lost track of time...." "For two hours?" Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There was a lot of work that people don't know about that I did to establish my villain persona. There were a lot of miles on the road that went into it, thousands upon thousands of hours of writing on yellow pads while driving in my car with the dome light on.
~ Roddy Piper
I think within what my job is, you always have to find a balance, because this job is also a life choice. You're traveling about; your hours are all over the place. If you're in a show, you're out every night.
~ Samantha Barks
I treasure the dark hours in a theatre. But I don't think that, if a film does not reach the theatre, it is, therefore, not a film.
~ Dede Gardner
Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
~ James Van Der Beek
Back when I was a callow youth, if I had known how miserable the hours would be working for the CIA, I would have just told that recruiter to send me in prison instead.
~ Stephen Coonts
This went on for four hours. By Millie's count, four hours was enough time to kill twenty-seven prairie dogs. They might have a language of sorts, but they didn't use it to tell each other not to have a look-see at what all the commotion was topside.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
~ Arthur Baer
I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.
~ Joyce Carol Oates