“The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.” EnjoyHoursPleasurePoorHavensCooksPleasures Of Life Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to.” ShouldShowsKidsNightHoursHalfFourWeekHavensMonthsLosingDoctorsBonesHalf HoursCalcium Author:Stephen Colbert
“Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.” PeopleKnowsWayWantShouldTwoBookHandsThreeHoursOne ThingStageHavensSurpriseFingersIntenseCorporateDigitalMore TimePaceSlow DownSurvivingUtopianContemplativeUnattainableAppsHyperFragmentedContemplative LifeFingers Crossed Author:Junot Diaz
“You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.” KnowsTryingDoneEnoughStuffHoursSleepSimpleHavensGeniusGet BetterEndeavorSimple ThingsBrainless Author:Randy Newman
“Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.” WorldLongMadeWarAbleHoursHappenedEventsHavensInternetHorrorNewsPhonesCommunicateMade ItWitnessMobileAugustMobile PhonesWoodstockHorror Of WarNews ChannelsWorld Events Author:Richie Havens
“I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.” FirstsSaidTwoHoursHalfStageHavensGoes OnLateSupposed To BeConcertsFifthFestivalsHalf HoursWoodstock Author:Richie Havens
“A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsMeanChildrenSoulSelfStatesMomentsNextHoursHavensPartnersSatisfiedBeing TrueThis LifeYour SoulPermanentBlissMealsMatesUps & DownsMake Me HappySoul MateSelf SufficiencySufficiencySaying YesGood Meals Author:Bob Dylan
“Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.” WellsThreeLeftHoursFiveStreetsCarHavensColdBoringPairsPantsButtonsTrafficCountingNovemberExaggeration Author:John Hodgman
“To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But how can you know that students have learned without spending hours correcting tests and papers? . . . check students understanding while you are teaching (not at 10 o'clock at night when you're correcting papers) so you don't move on with unlearned material that can accumulate like a snowball and eventually engulf the student in confusion and despair.” KnowsMovingNightUnderstandingHoursTeachingHavensStudentsTaughtMaterialsDespairPaperTestsEducationalSpendingChecksConfusionClockPapersCorrectingSnowball Author:Madeline Hunter
“I have killed two people since midnight. I haven't slept in over 24 hours. So maybe you should be a little more afraid of me than you are now.” PeopleShouldLittlesTwoHoursHavensRight NowMidnight Author:Jack Bauer
“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!” IfsWritingHas BeensFeelingsLightHoursDarkMy OwnRoomsSuccessfulTeachingHavensSticksFingersPrisonerExposedClothingsPlatesElderlyDark RoomFaustBastille Author:Bret Harte
“There's actually a time when I got cast in something and it was announced that someone else was cast. I hadn't been told yet if I had the role and I had a breakdown because I really wanted it and it was announced on this website that this other girl had gotten it. I was so sad and called my agents and said, "You guys didn't tell me this other person got the role!" They were like, "No, they haven't decided yet." Then two hours later I got the call that said I had the role.” IfsPersonsSaidTwoWantedGuyGirlHoursRolesHavensDecidedCastsAgentsWebsiteBreakdownOther GirlSo Sad Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“We got in after a ten hour drive after sleeping for four hours. I'm not complaining here. I'm really not complaining. Ten hour drive to get here, we unload, we sound check, we get here we take photos, we do this. I haven't eaten anything today. It's like... And I'm not even hungry.” TodaySoundHoursSleepFourHavensTenComplainingHungryChecks Author:Justin Vernon
“Over the years, Britain has made her own, unique contribution to Europe. We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and persecution. And in Europe's darkest hour, we helped keep the flame of liberty alight. Across the continent, in silent cemeteries, lie the hundreds of thousands of British servicemen who gave their lives for Europe's freedom.” YearsMadeLyingHoursLibertyHavensUniqueEuropeSilentBritishTyrannyFlamesContributionBritainContinentsPersecutionCemeteryFleeingDarkest HourServicemen Author:David Cameron
“There's a lot of things that haven't been communicated to our communities. I didn't know these things myself. I didn't know that if you ate cheap food, it was like buying cheap gasoline, and there was a reason why after an hour you get headaches, or youhypoglycemic.” IfsKnowsReasonCommunityHoursHavensReason WhyBuyingOur CommunityHeadacheGasolineCheap Food Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.” PeopleMovingNightThreeHoursHalfHavensLaysExcitedMusclesFrankHalf HoursIowa Author:Meredith Willson