“When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the nigh.The biggest Slurpee you can find,half cherry half Coke.Pajama pants, the kind that have been washed so many times they are tissue-paper thin. And finally,dace breaks.Lots of dance breaks.” NeedsKindHas BeensThreeHoursHalfBreakStudyFiveWeekPaperFinalsPantsThree ThingsCokeTissuesCherriesTissue PaperFinals Week Author:Jenny Han
“Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.” WayNightHoursSleepFiveFour Author:Andy Behrman
“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
“I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.” ThinkingEasyBitsHoursFiveNineEveningDesksPuppetsBreathlessNon Stop Author:Nina Conti
“Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.” WritingTryingEnoughHoursFiveToo MuchFourThousandSession Author:Robert Harris
“What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.” PeopleThinkingSoundHoursSleepFiveFourPlanetsSightVideoConsumptionConsuming Author:Jason Kilar
“It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.” YearsChildrenLittlesStillsIdeasHoursFiveSittingCrueltyTortureFive YearsGazingOne HourFive Year OldsVacancySitting Still Author:Ellen Swallow Richards
“there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.” YearsMomentsThreeHoursFiveFourWeekTomorrowHundredTwentiesSevenYesterdaySixtySeven Days Author:Philip Toshio Sudo
“It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am.” PeopleIfsProblemHouseHoursFiveBeachInvitedHospitalityHometownBeach House Book:Traveling While Married Source: Traveling While Married
“I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsHeartLittlesHoursFiveSixEatingYears AgoMeatChickensHeart BeatEating MeatHeart Beating Author:Constance Marie
“You are not exposed to one chemical at a time, but a complex mixture of chemicals that changes day by day, hour by hour, depending on where you are and the environment you are in... In the United States alone it is estimated that over 72,000 different chemicals are used regularly. Two thousand five hundred new chemicals are introduced annually-and of these, only 15 are partially tested for their safety. Not one of the chemicals in use today has been adequately tested for these intergenerational effects that are initiated in the womb.” Has BeensTwoDifferentStatesUseTodayUsedHoursUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentFiveEffectsThousandHundredSafetyComplexesEnvironmentalWhere You AreChemicalsExposedPollutionTestedWombMixtures Author:Theo Colborn
“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...” WantYearsKindDifferentLeftHoursPartyHalfGoneFiveCuttingRepublicanTenTaxesBiggerBudgetsFive YearsChicagoSenateDifferent KindsBalancedDetroitLeft AloneTax CutsHalf HoursBaltimoreFergusonBalanced BudgetBigger Better Author:Rand Paul
“Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy.” IfsWayTwoImportantSelfHardSongTurnsFallBeliefHoursFiveMonthsProudSixInstinctCorePianoTrustedBe ProudSix MonthsFall BackCore Beliefs Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.” IfsKnowsWayLongWholeThreeHoursLinesFiveCuttingMinutesSceneJokesShotsVersionsGet BackSecondsTestingGoing To WorkFive MinutesBiggest FearFunny JokesPreview Author:Judd Apatow
“Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids.” DoeSchoolUsedEnergyHoursFiveCollegeExerciseShapesHigh SchoolBuiltTrackUsed To BeRanStayingWorkoutSkinnyGymnasticsPilatesSteroidCheerleading Author:Eva Longoria
“There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.” WantHoursFiveTasteDirectorsHollywoodOriginalsHeavyAliensPlanesPlusWowMetalsSheerGood TasteHeavy Metal Author:Ridley Scott
“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
“I had to make my body fit like Bruce Lee. I trained for eight months, five days a week, eight hours a day. I just ate chicken breasts and vegetables, sometimes just egg whites.” SometimesBodyHoursFiveWeekMonthsFitEightBreastsEggsChickensVegetables Author:Rain
“I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.” SongFoundHoursQualityFiveMinutesFive MinutesCorrelation Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it.” WantLooksHumorFunnyMotherHoursRoomsFiveMessWant MePigsHe Wants Me Author:Bill Cosby
“All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.” IfsFeelsTryingMeanI CanHomeHoursFiveSittingWork OutCyclingFeels Right Author:Magnus Backstedt
“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.” MeanLittlesHoursLosesPoorFiveHappenedMonthsHabitEatingGainsTwentiesPoundsStomachEating HabitsGood Eating Author:Mila Kunis