Quotes About Hours

For he was by nature and temperament passive, could sit without occupation hours on end, and loved, as we know, to see time spacious before him, and not to have the sense of its passing banished, wiped out or eaten up by prosaic activity.

as if a plunge toward dawn indefinite black hours long would indeed be necessary

Cora informed him, wringing her hands fretfully. "Ah been a-knockin' an' a-knockin' on her door for hours now an' she still doan answer my pleas, Mistah Jeffrey. Dat ain't right, suh. Doan matter how upset she is, she gots ta eat fo' de baby." Jeff was thoroughly bemused. "What in the blazes does Nell's baby have to do with my wife eating?

stopped for a moment to talk with the few girls who called out to her. The refuge's lead adolescent psychologist, Hannah Smith, had decreed that all doors would remain open during certain hours though the kids were allowed privacy, too. The risk of harming themselves was

I make you nervous. Admit it." "I've known you barely twenty-four hours," Rafe retorted. "That isn't enough time to get used to a woman's perfume, let alone the fact that she knows without looking what kind of shorts you happen to be wearing." Isabel chuckled. "Okay, you win that round.

I cannot write of things which even impassioned breath cannot utter. Autumn is coming with its days of gold, its days of reverie and of you—oh, such delightful hours that my heart burns within me at the anticipation.

Ensure releases can always be performed during normal business hours with zero downtime.

While there I had picked up a few vital crumbs of information, and I knew the first twenty-four hours of any investigation were crucial. The more time passed, the colder the trail grew. In a missing person case, that meant the chances of finding that missing person alive dropped by the hour. The first twenty-four had come and gone. The first forty-eight were waving good-bye from the window of the "you suck at your job" train.

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for hours at a time, as I get lost in the work, but I'd know if it wasn't there. If that makes sense.

When I was nursing my son, you're up all the time during the first year, and you're sort of brain dead. So I'd find myself watching Turner Classic Movies at odd hours.

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

I'd watch Pixar movies for, like, six hours, back-to-back. I'd watch 'Finding Nemo' twice a week, back-to-back-to-back, three times in a row.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

The Central Lending Library in Liverpool was completely ruined. (The rest of the city's libraries stayed open throughout the Blitz, maintaining regular hours and levying the usual overdue fines.)

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

A few hours later, I am dressed in what will either be the most sensational or the deadliest costume in the opening ceremonies.

I'm a big fan of soups and stews because you can throw everything in a slow cooker and leave it there for hours. They taste great in containers, too, because they sit in the fridge, and the flavors meld overnight.

The last thing a trader needs to do is be scientific or play econometrician during buisness hours.

Even now, she looked radiant to him. How ridiculous that he'd be romanticizing her in these final hours. What could have once been love was now the resignation of a heart long broken.

Good, you're awake. I trust you've healed enough over the past few hours to be a little more coherent, and little less miserable coherent, yes. Less miserable, no. Just a deferent kind of misery