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Quotes About Hours

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
~ Henry Kissinger
I used to lie for hours staring into the dark of the sleeping house, feeling the loneliness that only the sleepless know when the queer feeling comes that it is the sleeping who are alive and those awake are disembodied ghosts.
~ Leonard Everett Fisher
The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
~ Leonard Orr
El arte es una magia que hace que las horas se desvanezcan e incluso que los días se disuelvan en segundos.
~ Leonora Carrington
Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.
~ Dustin Moskovitz
We all fantasize about work that uses our creativity, is self-directed, happens during the hours we choose, and occurs in an attractively lit setting with fascinating people - you know, jobs like women have on TV.
~ Sandra Tsing Loh
You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.
~ Kumail Nanjiani
TV requires a lot more patience. No one's ever like, 'I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!' It's an easy life. With 'Silicon Valley,' it's long hours and very unglamorous.
~ Kumail Nanjiani
Wallace, it turned out, was a big fan of Rolling Stone and me. When he died we had hours of tape of him trying to explain his life.
~ Jann S. Wenner
7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.
~ Jasper Fforde
I worked in Toronto for two days. And by work I mean sit in a trailer for 15 hours, say two lines, and leave.
~ Daniel Tosh
If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.
~ Dave Brubeck
Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
~ Evan Peters
I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
~ Jeff Bridges
There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.
~ Jeff Daniels
I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.
~ Jennie Garth
When we're choreographing, we're on the ice five or six hours a day. The setting for your skin is just horrendous - the stress and the competition makeup and the training itself.
~ Tessa Virtue
There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.
~ Brad Paisley
I'm obsessed with my career. I'm 25 - it shouldn't really be any other way. I've had boyfriends in the past who haven't understood that, but I didn't lose any sleep over it. If a man has a problem with the fact I work 20 hours a day, I don't have to explain myself.
~ Jessica Barden
The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days. Overtime is a wash.
~ Tom DeMarco
It all seems so curious today as 300 hours' worth of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.
~ Tom Wheeler
the hours plink past like water from a window a/c. we sweat it out, teach ourselves to wait. silently, lazily, collapse happens.
~ Tracy K. Smith
There have been times, what with this and that, when the whisper of words was not enough. On some shelf of memory lies a misplaced summer, one not stored away for later savoring. Surely it ended early, with unexpected fogs, with the wind sliding past through unmeasured darkness. No voice could be enough, what with this and that, and the hours falling faster.
~ Paul Bowles
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.
~ John Cotton