Hours Quotes

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.

I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

I've spent hours playing video games.

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.