“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.” KnowsChildrenThreeLanguageHoursWorkFourMonthsBecomingSixBenefitsResearchAdultsDifficultyConstantTongueFasterDisagreeDozenSix MonthsTheoreticalExperimentationThree MonthsUnderestimatedFluentLinguists Author:Tim Ferriss
“While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets.” ChildrenParentHoursDealsPartySecretFeetStrangeListeningAdultsSevenFinding YourselfRamaTalk To MeMany Friends Author:Frederick Lenz
“During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.” GivingHouseHoursLibertyPeriodsAdultsLegsHouse Arrest Author:Julian Assange
“Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.” YearsChildrenCountrySometimesHomeHoursFiveFourLandFitAdultsTwentiesSpeedNativeFour YearsYearningTravelerJetTwenty FiveNative Land Book:Reviving Ophelia Source: Reviving Ophelia
“In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!” MadeBookSeemsAgeJoyHoursAdultsCocktailsTimely Author:Graydon Carter
“I would visit Vegas every year when I was a kid. Vegas, to a kid, is a playground, as much as it is to adults. I discovered the magic store in a hotel and would spend hours and hours in there.” YearsKidsHoursMagicAdultsStoresHotelVegasPlaygrounds Author:John Francis Daley
“As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters, and would immerse in playing like that for hours. I suppose it was a natural follow up, wanting to still play in a similar fashion, but as an adult.” StillsBookPlayCharacterKidsHoursNaturalNovelFashionBrotherPagesAdultsMy BrotherFollow Up Author:Irena A. Hoffman
“Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.” YoungHoursPlansTvsNewsAdultsClaimsYoung AdultAlsCablesGoreTuesdayCable TvCable News Author:Tina Fey
“It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.” LittlesEasyHoursRoomsAdultsTwelveAcademia Author:Lauren Groff
“Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did not know that adult humans dream 90 minutes per night, and that newborns spend eight hours per day dreaming (out of their 16 hours of sleep). REM sleep helps grow the brain!” KnowsHumansHelpingDreamNightGrowsHoursMemoriesSleepBrainTechnologyModernMinutesBenefitsAdultsEightElusiveModern Technology Author:Charles McPhee
“Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.” NeedsYearsJobsAmericaHoursNumbersClassMillionsWeekMiddleRight NowLowsPercentAdultsOrganizationRatePopulationMiddle ClassMinimumGood JobNotableDeliveringPaychecksFull Time Jobs Author:Jim Clifton
“If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesKidsWantedStuffHoursDoorsCoupleAdultsYeahMy FavoriteAppealsIf I CouldHolidayNutsBe YouHalloweenLittle KidMy BirthdayPranks Author:Frank Iero
“All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.” IfsHoursRoomsAdults Author:Salman Rushdie
“We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.” KnowsChildrenWarMomentsDesireDiesTurnsHoursForgetAcceptingWeekPrideAdultsSpeciesRepetitionImpossibilityMonotonousImpending Death Author:Michelle Richmond
“Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.” Has BeensEndsHardUseFilmFacesHoursHalfCarAdultsBritishCoreHotelWorking ItRacingEditingHalf HoursRace CarBlokesHard CoreTop GearCool Cars Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.” MenWantRealFactsHoursEmotionAdultsIntelligentSeekingCrushWakingBoresThrillDescribing Author:Julie Burchill
“When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.” YoungRealizingHoursMinutesAdultsBurdenBaitPrecious ThingsQhuinn And Blay Author:J.R. Ward
“I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.” RememberReadingNextHoursSleepFourBabyAdultsWake UpPursuitMailCollapseSunriseCatchingBedtimeMy BabyCatching Up Author:Padma Lakshmi