Best Hours Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.”

“I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.”

Two Night Hours Audience Week One Day Majors Schedules Days Of The Week

Author:Lee Majors

“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.”

Needs Would Be House Hours Risk Fronts Computer Sitting Mail

Author:Marian McPartland

“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

Thinking States Lasts Three Hours United United States Saws Week Minutes Media Average Radio Variety Surveys Electronic Media

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.”

People Hours Rooms Military Shooting Promotion Hostage Bikinis Kidnapped Coups Ventilation

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.”

Mind Kind Ideas Hours Morning Minutes Worst Ready Bed Privilege Come Up Golden Awake Censorship Drifting

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”

Said School Hours Study Teacher Training Constant Pursuit Enjoyed Fixed Guidance

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.”

Process Hours Performances

Author:Keith Olbermann

“If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.”

Ifs Enough Shows Home Hours Watches Improvement More Time Hours In The Day Woodworking Home Improvement

Author:Nick Offerman

“I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.”

Mind Sometimes Hours Cities Passing Passings Passing Through

Author:Will Oldham

“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.”

Wells Hard Done Hours Television Hard Work Pressure Rehearsal Get It Done

Author:Evan Peters

“Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.”

Writing Hours Forever Band Keep Going Procrastinating Itunes

Author:Marisha Pessl

“If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.”

Ifs Two Able Fun Hours Football Picks Weak Glasses Having Fun Fists American Football

Author:Lou Holtz

“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."”

Thinking Way Giving Looks Book Matter Hard Done Whole Hours Walks Rooms Behinds Week Keys Personality Pages Whole Life Gray Traits Sister

Author:Eleanor Brown

“My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.”

Giving Writing Force Hours Sleep Pleasure Trifles Unproductive

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.”

Has Beens Hours Wise Blessing Praise Blessed Remembrance

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!”

Way Believe Ends Funny Found I Believe Term Hours Flower Conversation Importance Intimate Thoughtful Clients Uncertain Funny Things Urgency Niche Blogging Intimate Conversation

Author:Tom Peters

“I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Hours Four Nice Plans Middle Findings Checks These Days Things To Do Look Up Finding Yourself Pens Wet Marvelous Notebook Auctions Ebay Marvelous Things

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein expelled from the department within 24 hours from receipt of this order.”

Order Hours Class Trade Jew Department Regulation Treasury Receipts

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.”

Way Littles Might Would Be Realizing Hours Mom Proud Late Wake Up My Mom Dinner Breakfast Way To Live Inappropriate Snacks Proud Of Me

Author:Aaron Levie

“If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.”

Ifs Want Running Courses Hours Four Couple Planes Paris Meals Unexpected Days Off

Author:Ali Larter

“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.”

People Thinking Needs Mind Littles Two Helping Kids School Three Hours Teaching Chairs Village Little Kid Athens Niger

Author:Christine Lagarde

“If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.”

Ifs Two Book Character Film Hours Pages Scripts

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.”

Writing Firsts Home Hours Morning First Time Get Up Novelists Coming Home Breakfast

Author:Ridley Pearson

“A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.”

World Ends Difficult Realizing Hours Race Talking Darkness Listeners January Daytona

Author:Scott Pruett

“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.”

Moments Energy Hours Half Theater Indescribable Live Theater

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.”

Writing I Can Two Voice Can Do Hours Sleep Lists Magazines Groceries I Can Do It Grocery Lists

Author:Ann Patchett

“One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.”

Country Hate Hours Crime Committed Hate Crime

Author:Anna Paquin

“Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.”

Littles Pain Hours Profit Dues Yield

Author:John Phillips

“I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.”

Ifs Knows Feels Kind Hours Blood Six Sitting Budgets Sugar Blood Sugar Campers

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”

People Two Different Form Literature Force Hours Pay Attention Comedy Groups Painting Photography Tragedy Pay Attention Screenplays Soundtracks

Author:Paula Patton

“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

Two Action Film Used Three Hours Challenges Novel Four Cutting Pages Hundred Features Dramatic Adapting

Author:Tom Perrotta

“Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.”

Thinking Should Night Hours Half Quality Audience Weekend Sophisticated Thursday Thursday Night

Author:Maggie Q

“When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.”

Writing Years Littles Bits Hours Break Week Months Couple Little Bit Pace

Author:Amy Ray

“Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.”

Bigs Hours Fans Jackie Rush Hour

Author:Brett Ratner

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.”

Needs Facts Hours Sleep Five Bases Regard Blessed Sunday Saturday Work Day Saturday And Sunday

Author:David Rubenstein

“I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.”

People Kind Mean Actors Enjoy Hours Differences Half Tvs Research Bigger Privilege Making A Difference Advocacy Thursday

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I usually sleep just a few hours a night.”

Night Hours Sleep

Author:Jackson Rathbone

“Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.”

Years Form Hours Records Taxes Billions Filling

Author:Jim Ramstad

“I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.”

Hours Class College Hair Get Up Makeup Roommate Hair And Makeup

Author:Kim Raver

“Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.”

Humans Persons Long Hours Human Beings Crazy Tvs Jokes Tests Stronger Stronger Person

Author:Rebecca Romijn

“It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.”

Knows Ends Hours Half Watches Know How Obvious Tedious

Author:Rudy Rucker

“I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.”

Long Hours Long Hours

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.”

Writing Two Hours My Family Fourteen

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.”

Hours Walks Streets Changed Lows Resolution Iphone Changed My Life Sidewalk

Author:Kiki Smith

“"Antiques Roadshow" is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, "don't bother me."”

Shows Night Hours Television Husband My Favorite Bother My Husband Monday Appointments Antiques One Hour Popcorn Monday Night

Author:Lara Spencer

“You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.”

Hours Prepared Be Prepared

Author:Beanie Sigel

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