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Quotes About Hours

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.
~ Charles Bukowski
Everything – the entire 400-megabuck investment, ten years of Company black operations – depends on what happens in the next few hours.
~ Charles Stross
Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?
~ Tom Robbins
A voluntary act to fill empty hours had become intensive labor streaked with the bad feelings that ride the skin like pollen when too much about one's neighbors is known.
~ Toni Morrison
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
~ Khalil Gibran
Otherwise you might have an old Irish slag knocking at your door in the wee hours.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Cold as a bitch's tit." "It's 'witch's.'" "Why? Doesn't matter," Eve said quickly. "Neither way makes sense. If somebody's a witch, why do they put up with cold tits? I'm a bitch, and twenty-four hours ago, my tits were plenty warm.
~ J.D. Robb
I'm rambling." "And I could listen to you talk for hours, so don't focus on my account." "Yeah, well…focus is important." "Only if you're a microscope." She smiled a little.
~ J.R. Ward
When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
~ Kelly Jones
For me Salman's the most romantic and the best action hero there ever could be. I'm so attracted and mesmerized by him! For me he's the ultimate superstar, I can just watch him for hours.
~ Rhea Chakraborty
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.
~ Adrian R. Lewis
Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word My choicest hours Are the hours I spend with You - O God, I can't live in this world Without remembering You
~ Rabia Basri
B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you." Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.
~ T.A. Pratt
The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are!
~ Tags: giving
If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.
~ Ilona Andrews
Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
~ Milton Berle
All of the questions that had been open when my head had hit the pillow were still pending. But in the intervening hours, my brain had been changing to fit the new shape of my world. I guess that's why we can't do anything else when we're sleeping: it's when we work hardest.
~ Neal Stephenson
Only a few hours later, watching another such column go by, he stared right into the face of Monsieur Arlanc—who stared right back at him. He had no hair, his cheeks were grizzly and sucked-in from hunger, but Monsieur Arlanc it was.
~ Neal Stephenson
The Garden of Gethsemane is halfway up the Mount of Olives, where Christ grappled with his courage during those last dark hours of life. Today it is a Franciscan monastery.
~ Carol Drinkwater
I've sat in so many meetings where they talk about converting movies to 3D just for the China market and just to make more money. I saw that people in China work long, long hours and that it's expensive to go to the movies, and you want to rip them off for even more money? I don't think that's right.
~ Justin Lin
One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.
~ Andrew Yang
I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.
~ Travis Kalanick
No one keeps track of the hours we work," said Ken Holberger. He grinned. "That's not altruism on Data General's part. If anybody kept track, they'd have to pay us a hell of a lot more than they do." Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thing.
~ Tracy Kidder