“At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.” NeedsWould BeHouseHoursRiskFrontsComputerSittingMail Author:Marian McPartland
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.” ThinkingKnowsYearsChildrenPassionHoursFrontsTvsInternetSittingPursueMy ChildrenSurfingSuspiciousSurfing The Internet Author:Amy Chua
“The Argentineans practice on the court for two hours a day, then they must practice in front of a mirror for two more hour saying 'I'm not guilty.'” TwoHoursPracticeFrontsMirrorsCourtGuiltyNot Guilty Author:Vince Spadea
“When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.” PlayUsedDifficultHoursLinesTreeFrontsMy FriendsSpotsThrowingParallelsBack And ForthDifficult ThingsRamaFrisbee Author:Frederick Lenz
“First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'” PeopleKnowsFirstsI CanThreeHoursHalfSawsComedyCuttingMinutesFrontsFirst TimeTwentiesWowHalf Hours Author:Ben Stiller
“I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.” SchoolUsedNightNextHouseHoursFrontsStandingMirrorsTablesWork OutLengthNext Day Author:Clemence Poesy
“I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.” HoursPracticeMagicFrontsReadyMirrorsTricksMagic Tricks Author:Steve Martin
“To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day.” WritingPersonsImportantHoursFrontsEightTwelveLockedKnocking Author:Jacqueline Briskin
“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!” WritingInspirationAsksHeavenHoursWeekFrontsMonthsHabitShapesNotionMoodStaringLapses Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentShowsMotherHoursDarkRoomsFourFrontsTvsAmountSittingRadioMicrophonesTeresaDark Room Author:Wendy Williams
“It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.” PeopleThinkingBookReasonKidsFilmParentHoursDealsResponsibilityImagineInfluenceFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTypeViolentFallenCensorshipImagine ThatSeductiveUnspeakableMagical Thinking Author:John Irving
“Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.” TryingEnoughEyeTogetherCoursesEasySoundHoursLevelsFrontsFiguresDangerSimplicityPlanesBoredomAviationConfusingCompassWearinessGreat AviationNoddingKeel Book:Sky Roads of the World Source: Sky Roads of the World
“I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.” PeopleIfsTwoPlayMomentsHoursFrontsBecoming Author:John Mayer
“'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.” ThinkingDifferentUseHappensSpeakDifficultHoursWatchesFrontsMouthsLettersMirrorsTongueCoachesRealisingDialectDialect Coach Author:Marion Cotillard
“I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.” UsedThreeReadingActorsBlackHoursWhitePoorWatchesFrontsTvsReaderAverageScriptsTake MeBlack And WhiteCowboyCowboy Movie Author:Will Poulter
“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.” YearsTwoStatesLightEnergyHoursUnitedEffortMillionsUnited StatesFourFrontsAmountRedStandingHorseTwentiesAverageEnginesUp And DownAutomobileDays Of The YearRed Lights Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.” HoursFrontsTelevisionAverageBalancedIntegrated Author:Stephen Covey
“But the thing is if you've got an hour to sit down in front of a television, then the likelihood is that you've probably got two hours. So why wouldn't you, if you're enjoying it not want to watch the other one? And so, this is the future. Ten episodes at once is what everyone wants, and then it's up to you how you spread those out” IfsWantTwoEnjoyHoursWatchesFrontsTelevisionTenSpreadEpisodesUp To YouLikelihood Author:Christian Cooke
“I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsSaidJobsAsksHoursPayFrontsPleaseOne DaySlaveBoringActressesRidiculousLabourMassiveShelvesSaturdayCleaningChemistQueuesSlave Labour Author:Konnie Huq
“It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.” MenHoursFrontsMirrorsVanityBother Author:Simon Munnery
“Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.” IfsMenGrowsGrowthHoursWatchesTreeFrontsOvercomingObstaclesAll TimeThriveGood TimesRunnersWormsStatureIncessantlyBeetlesPrunesAfter Hours Book:Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
“I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.” LittlesHoursSleepFrontsEatingPicksStandingEightCarrotsPantry Author:Lisa Loeb
“They're very sociable occasions and there's no barriers between us and the audience. It's customary that after our performances, we go out into the foyer and spend an hour or so signing autographs for the fans and having our pictures taken with them.We strongly believe that going out front to meet the fans is just as important as playing the gigs - and we all love a good natter!” BelieveImportantHoursAudienceTakenFansFrontsPerformancesOccasionsBarriersGoing OutGigsAutographsSigningSociablePicture TakenSigning AutographsFoyers Author:Ric Sanders
“It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.” ThinkingWritingAbleHoursFrontsComputerIncrediblesPrivilege Author:Nick Blaemire
“Having been in front of the camera just a couple of times, I'm empathetic, because it's very disconcerting. Someone shuffles you off to the trailer; you sit there for eleven hours wondering what the hell's going on.” HoursWonderHellFrontsCoupleCamerasElevenTrailersEmpatheticShuffle Author:Kurt Voss
“Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.” ThinkingLongHappensHoursSleepWalksImagineMinutesFrontsTenNosesDaylightSmartphonesLong Walks Author:Daniel Kahneman
“I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.” HoursFireCrazyFrontsEightMagazinesCouches Author:Phil Elvrum
“I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.” I CanSoulThreeHoursFourFrontsComputerGet Real Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.” WantDoeGuyHoursFrontsComputerBarsProgrammingThis GuyThat Guy Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"” PeopleWaySaidI CanWholeBeautifulHoursChurchImagineFrontsGoes OnBecomingMembersWanderOrthodoxAmerican WomanBeautiful YouTruth Of God Author:Andrew Solomon
“Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.” IfsFeelsBelieveDoeHelpingThreeHoursFrontsComputerSittingFinishedNineI've LearnedBreakfastBelieve In MeNapsSleepy Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Collecting cookbooks is still my biggest passion! Believe it or not, I actually got the biggest form of inspiration from my kids. My kids do everything online. They would have their tablets in front of them watching hours upon hours of online videos. I came to understand that these videos were actually teaching my kids lots of different forms of information.” BelieveStillsDifferentInspirationKidsFormPassionHoursTeachingFrontsInformationVideoOnlineCollectingTabletsCookbook Author:Wolfgang Puck
“Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts - it teaches a kid that there are important truths beyond the literal ones, and that we have ways to access those truths that are, let's say, super-rational.” WayImportantKidsBeautifulHoursChurchTeachFrontsObjectsTruth IsSittingHearingSpendingAccessRationalSymbolicLiteral Author:George Saunders
“I know what it means to sit in that chair for four or five hours. For me, it's actually thrilling because I get to know something that I'm not used to. The others do that every working day. It's a real commitment, not only in terms of acting in front of a camera, but just in order to get there.” KnowsMeanRealUsedOrderTermHoursActingFiveFourFrontsCommitmentCamerasChairsThrilling Author:Richard Sammel
“It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.” SeemsKidsParentHoursDealsResponsibilityFrontsTelevisionTypeCensorship Author:John Irving