Hours Quotes

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'

Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

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

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.