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“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.”

States Grows Hours Differences Common Watches Taste Judgment Mark Titles Distinction Seconds Temper Smallest Refined Ingenious Cultivation Stationary Hume

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And our current government programs, offer at best only a partial solution. They help people deal with poverty, but they do not help them escape it.”

People Wells May Helping Dream Government Jobs Hours Deals Pay Poverty Offers Solutions Program Currents American Dream Minimum Polls Minimum Wage Government Programs

Author:Marco Rubio

“There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.”

Nations Hours Enemy Victory Obeying Dishonour

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear. With equal skill, with god-like power, He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war, or guides with ease, The happier times of honest peace.”

World War Names Sound Hours Honest Trump Fame Skills Equal Ears Dear Guides Rings Ease Loud Fearful Joyful Applause Happier Times

Author:Joseph Hopkinson

“If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Facts Helping Night Jesus Sex Christ Born Hours Answers Impossible Mankind Pride Creating Jesus Christ Sake Crowds Scandal Decency

Author:Marie de Gournay

“The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.”

Knows Men Values Hours One Day

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.”

Men Has Beens Facts Certain Fall Next Left Hours Sin Wonder Virtue Influence Honor Men And Women Shame Temptation Height Shock Exposed

Author:J. G. Holland

“I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.”

People World Way Hours Half Fantasy Environment Huge Grew Grew Up Dresses Dressings Colorful Dressing Up Fantasy Worlds

Author:Shingai Shoniwa

“Hours of research can cut months of field work.”

Hours Cutting Fields Months Research

Author:E. Lee Spence

“I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all.”

May I Can Two Hard Feelings Remember Hours Imagination Directors Glad My Imagination Hostage

Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?”

Giving Should Might Hours Refuse

Author:Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.”

Artist Fall Actors Hours Memories Silence Darkness Stage Produce Divine Poet Musician Evidence Theater Missions Painter Curtains Sculptors

Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!”

“Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.”

Humans Hours Human Beings Influence Birth

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.”

May Found Hours Drinking Available Alcohol Sober Comforting Alcoholism Truth About Life

Author:Joan Acocella

“pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.”

Hands Running Courses Hours Pity Our Future Your Future

Author:Zelda Popkin

“Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.”

Inspiration Hours Just One Requirements

Author:Zelda Popkin

“It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Helping Feelings Care Remember Found Hours Morning Wise And Love Take Care Help Me Leisure Love Myself Take Care Of Me

Author:Byllye Avery

“Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.”

Writing Persons Done Artist Hours Practice Income Pens Often Is Interruptions Interrupting Time Is Money

Book:Selections from Eliza Leslie

Source: Selections from Eliza Leslie

“My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.”

Mind Night Hours Clear Brave Midnight

Author:Vera Caspary

“I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.”

Knows Writing Long Sometimes Hours Know How Minutes

Book:The Little Colonel's House Party

Source: The Little Colonel's House Party

“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.”

Knows Years Able America Past Time Fall Speak Language Hours Happened Century Events Flower Speech Ordinary China Accepted Related Passages Scholar Leafs Grammar Incidents Tense Dynasty Immediacy

Author:Nora Waln

“Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.”

Knows Firsts Eye Death Lying Hours Dark Planets Lovers Finals Paradise His Eyes

Author:Gwendolyn MacEwen

“It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.”

House Hours Months Cameras Nightmare

Author:Kathy Griffin

“Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.”

Earth Dies Heaven Sound Hours Hell Flower Ocean Depth Caught Breathe Shade Delicate Verses Echoes Delicate Flower

Author:Catherine Maria Fanshawe

“It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.”

Writing Three Sound Hours Four Shameful

Author:Anne Bernays

“What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.”

Thinking Trying Hard Able House Hours Morning Clear Phones Screens Honestly Notebook Cafes

Author:Jami Attenberg

“If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.”

Ifs Hours Sacred Sunday Saturday Monday Friday Saturday And Sunday

Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“One day we wake up and we are broken. We taste it in our morning kiss. Our mirror tells us the same stories in separate hours: things will never be the same.”

Stories Hours Morning Broken Taste One Day Kissing Wake Up Mirrors

Author:Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

“I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.”

Hours Predictions

Author:Louis Rukeyser

“It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.”

People Doe Realizing Hours Strange Scene Glimpse

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.”

Film Easy Hours One Hour

Author:Jean-Marc Vallee

“Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.”

Thinking Feelings Age Hours Sleep Common Music Is Contrary Common Sense Waking Solace

Author:Mark Heard

“Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love.”

Writing Looks Mother Hours Perfect Waste Tiny Unconditional Love Wasting Time Unconditional Liquid Being A Mother Diapers Bathtubs

Author:Chiara Barzini

“Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.”

People Needs Feels Joy Hours Laughing Great Joy

Author:Steve Carell

“When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.”

Long Hours Special Holy Comedian Hbo Holy Grail

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.”

Littles Stills Play Age School Three Hours Acting Boys Eight Tiny Piano Little Boys School Plays

Author:Christian McKay

“Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.”

People Film Fighting Hours Audience Terrible Jokes Old People Promotion Hong Kong American Family Rush Hour

Author:Jackie Chan

“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.”

Hours Practice Magic Fronts Ready Mirrors Tricks Magic Tricks

Author:Steve Martin

“Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two.”

People Ifs Made Two Shows Hours Answers Deals Tvs Providing Tv Shows Wraps Exploits Unanswered Questions Unanswered

Author:Bill Maher

“I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school...and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.”

Way School Night Girl Opportunity Hours Focus Wonderful Week Lucky Six Grades Graduates Really Great Homework Great Opportunity Nerdy Private School Seventh Grade Bookworms

Author:Sophia Bush

“I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.”

Ifs Knows I Can Body Moving Energy Hours Four Meditation Cold Amount Yoga Twenties Hot Hot Yoga

Author:Jason Mraz

“I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.”

Ifs Happens Process Hours Simple Style Fields Willing Masters Limits Argument Function

Author:Robert Greene

“I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for.”

Feels Looks Littles Shows Hours Simple Walks Millions Worst Terrible Bed Tired Feel Better Bucks

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.”

Want Giving Sometimes Lasts Fun Hours Pleasure Deals Reader Impression Fascinating Devotional

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.”

Mind Body Night Hours Sleep Watches Minutes Tvs Bed Eight Critical Nine Slow Down Disturbing Invigorating

Author:Richard Simmons

“No matter who you are, the game is fluid. The game is always evolving, so you always have to keep working on it. There are plenty of hours in the day to get that done.”

Matter Done Games Hours Who You Are Plenty Evolve Fluid Hours In The Day

Author:Tiger Woods

“About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and just let that nervous energy surge through my body. I start talking faster and louder. My confidence comes up. It's actually a great feeling.”

Mind Feelings Body Energy Hours Half Talking Air Come Up Nervous Faster Of My Mind Hyper Great Feelings

Author:David Letterman

“I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Together Hours Percent Cameras Lazy Tonight Heels Bras I Am Pretty Get It Together

Author:Amy Schumer

“I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.”

Firsts Hours Dollars Rose Steady Nurse Nursery Paychecks Rose Bush

Author:John Grisham

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