“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” IfsKnowsWorldImportantDreamLanguageHoursDealsWrittenMissingCommunicationBusyMythOutside World Book:The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths Source: The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
“I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.” PeopleIfsWantedLife IsHoursSleepMissingDrinkDrugSevenBoringSmokePleasantMissing It Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“Yesterday was not only daylight saving time, but also International Women's Day. What better way to address the issue of inequality for women than giving them a day that's missing an hour.” WayGivingHoursIssuesMissingInternationalYesterdayInequalitySavingAddressesBetter WaysDaylightInternational Women's DaySaving Time Author:David Letterman
“I was able to get a few words out that Scott Peterson was the Scott Peterson that had a missing, pregnant wife and ... I just shook. They said I was there probably like an hour and it just seemed like a moment ... I couldn't stop shaking. So I was, I guess, in shock.” SaidMomentsAbleHoursWifeMissingShockPregnantThey SaidShakingFew WordsPregnant Wife Author:Scott Peterson
“I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.” PeopleIfsTryingPersonsHardBigsHoursChallengesRoomsDealsStageMissingReadyHard WorkPerspectiveGoes OnLuckyJokesConnectionsCarefulBe CarefulNow And ThenBig DealHere And ThereLucky Person Author:Brian Regan
“And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.” WorldLongSoulBodyBeautifulHoursHalfMorningKnowingMissingBedCharmPrimeFragranceBack AgainSlothMarvellousLong HoursBlessedness Author:Sarah Smiley
“Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.” KidsHoursGrowing UpGrowingMissingRecipesKids Growing Up Author:Robert Harris
“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.” PeopleShowsHoursHalfTalkingAudienceMinutesMissing Author:Oprah Winfrey
“If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.” IfsFeelsIdeasHelpingHoursBreakBloodMissingStartingGlassesProductiveDesksAntiquesHour Glasses Author:Dan Brown
“Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.” ChildrenHas BeensUsedHoursMissingDrugUsersCould Have BeenProhibitionSellersInvestigatingDrug ProhibitionRestitution Author:Randy Barnett
“Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.” ChildrenHas BeensMightUsedHoursCasesMissingDrugCourtDollarsTrialsUsersCould Have BeenCollectingProhibitionSellersRobbersInvestigatingDrug ProhibitionRestitution Author:Randy Barnett
“I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.” HardRememberThreeDifficultHoursChurchRightsStreetsMissingWorkersCornersTraumaCivil RightsBaptistsMississippiBirmingham Author:John Lewis
“Crimes are being committed 24/7, 365 days a year. My show aired one hour a day, and then a repeat at 2 a.m. So I am launching a website, a crime-fighting website, a community. I will be writing for the website and curating content. Also, we'll have social media, Facebook Live, and a podcast. I'm really excited about it, and I believe we will help people - find missing people, solve unsolved homicides.” PeopleWritingYearsBelieveHelpingShowsFightingI BelieveSocialCommunityHoursMediaMissingCrimeCommittedExcitedSocial MediaSolveRepeatsWebsiteOne HourHomicideLaunching Author:Nancy Grace
“Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.” PeopleKnowsPersonsImportantSometimesHoursLinesHalfMissingMaterialsCrosses Author:Tom Stoppard
“[John Adams] letters courting Abigail Smith are especially priceless. In one of 1764 he addresses her as "Miss Adorable" and says that "By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses, and as many Hours of your Company after 9 O'Clock as he shall please to Demand and charge them to my Account."” GivingLastsNightOrderHoursCompanyMissingPleaseDemandKissingLettersAccountsClockAddressesLast NightPricelessAdorableTokensAbigail Author:Gordon S. Wood
“First of all you got ESPN, Fox Sports, all that, you don't miss one thing. People don't understand that. Like you could watch the whole NFL, I've got the RedZone coverage, I got my DirecTV stuff. You can watch everything in the NFL in a whole hour and you missed nothing. Anything that was worth watching is going to be played over and over again. It's like the MTV Awards.” PeopleFirstsWholeStuffSportsHoursWatchesOne ThingMissingLike YouNflAwardsFoxesCoverageMtvEspn Author:Terry Crews
“SportsCenter? You watch it and I didn't miss one thing. Chris Berman, they give you the whole rundown. I'm like wow. And I go in there and I walk in the next day, I know everything. They'll be like, "Oh did you see that?" I'd be like "Yeah I did," but it didn't take five hours.” KnowsGivingWholeNextHoursWalksWatchesFiveOne ThingMissingYeahWowNext Day Author:Terry Crews
“I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsMadeHardThreeEvilHoursCommonMissingTrumpPeriodsDramaComputerMade ItOur TimeHorizonRegimes Author:Jonathan Raymond
“I was actually working throughout the worst of the recession. I watched half my team lose their jobs, the hours were longer and the future was uncertain... But I worked with an amazing team and even in the worst times I was proud of the work I did and part I played. A lot people are surprised to hear I still miss the bank sometimes!” PeopleSometimesHoursTeamWorstMissingProud Author:Roxanne Emery
“With that explosion of dance music thing, there have been some downsides. We're lacking a little bit of connection right now. Pop music is so massive. It's everywhere. Today, there's less of discovery. There's less "I'm going to drive two hours and go see him at this dirty night club." We're missing a little bit of that. It's still there, and I feel like those connections are still made.” TodayNightHoursMissingMusic IsDirtyPop MusicNight Club Author:Kaskade
“It's a weird situation, doing interviews. Nowhere else in the world can you talk about yourself and have people listen like they're interested over and over. Most people, if they talked about themselves for a half an hour, you'd go, "I'll give them a miss next time." So it's kind of weird.” PeopleWorldGivingKindHoursSituationMissingAbout YourselfNext Time Author:Jason Pierce
“If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like I have to disappear into myself to write books. I go away, into my head, for hours and weeks at a time, and I hate that I miss everything. It's pretty selfish to want to pause other people, isn't it?” PeopleWritingBookHateHoursAbilityWeekMissingI HateDisappearSelfishGoing AwaySuperpowerStop Time Author:Rainbow Rowell
“'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.” TwoHardDoneTogetherHoursWhiteHalfMissingMusic IsRabbitsRipSpectacularTwo DaysWonderland Author:Grace Slick
“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.” ThinkingKnowsSometimesHardFallGivenChristHoursWatchesKnowingComedyMissingJokesRainWindowHeavyLondonStaringFlatsNervesNot KnowingTireExhaustion Author:Martin Amis