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• “Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.”

  James Berardinelli (born 1967) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Review of Doom (2005).

• “I have read but little of Madame Glyn. I did not know that things like It were going on. I have misspent my days. When I think of all those hours I flung away in reading Henry James and Santayana, when I might have been reading of life, throbbing, beating, perfumed life, I practically break down.”

  Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Dorothy Parker "Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It', with Illustrations", in The New Yorker, November 26, 1927.

• “Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.”

  Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Hope of Immortality (Ingersoll Lecture, 1906).

• “I quite like shutting the door, putting the answering machine on and sitting at the piano for six or seven hours.”

  Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As a professional I practice six or seven hours per day, though it depends on my schedule. That's how it is as a musician. It's only when you reach grade five you take them more serious. Until then I saw it as fun. I used to learn them by play pop tunes on the piano. They have harmonies and broken chords and can be used as building blocks to help you with scales.”

  Joanna MacGregor (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.”

  Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My doctor has warned me that my nerves will not stand any further strain... I have begun to have blackouts, in which my actions become automatic. Sometimes these periods last several hours.... I had one of these blackouts at an official luncheon in Paris recently, and startled guests by suddenly crowing like a cock....”

  James Bolivar Manson (1879–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: At age 58, announcing his retirement as Tate director. Quoted in Frances Spalding, The Tate: A History (1998), pp. 62–70. Tate Gallery Publishing, London. .

• “The Mozart Festival Opera's production of Don Giovanni made the three hours fly. The miming between Stefano de Peppo and Vytautas Juozapaitis as Don Giovanni was great physical comedy that had the audience laughing out loud. Juozapaitis possessed the voice, swagger and stage presence to match and dominate Leporello, and his costumes are among the best I've seen. I think Mozart would have approved.”

  Vytautas Juozapaitis (born 1963) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Christopher Hyde, "Mozart would have approved", Portland Press Herald (March, 2005)

• “As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, "Father, I am falling!" and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.”

  Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers— Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And joy for weary hours.”

  Mary Howitt (1799–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The poor Man's , reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• “For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.”

  Sarah Dessen (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Anyone who has wasted hours surfing the Internet knows that technology can encourage bad habits.”

  Ted Chiang (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “People who live in a calm retreat have a marvelous instinct for imagining storms and disasters in other people's lives, and they secretly rejoice at having avoided them themselves. It is a consolation that must be allowed these people, since pride, too, has its needs, and virtue alone cannot always compensate for long hours of boredom and solitude. (II)”

  George Sand (1804–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.”

  William Jones (philologist) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In Lord Teignmouth, Life of Sir W. Jones (1835), vol. 2. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, / Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fi…

• “Rubinstein was wonderful. For three days he spent hours playing the piano in my room, and then asking me what I thought of this and that. After a while he told my mother that I had talent and he thought I should be a musician.”

  Arthur Rubinstein (1887–1982) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Antonio de Almeida — reported in Paul Hume (July 28, 1981) "Odyssey Of a Conductor", The Washington Post, p. C4.

• “The touch, sure and light [is] fixing something of the passing moment.. ..memory is the true, imperishable life, that which has sunk without trace and been forgotten was not worth experiencing, the sweet hours, and the great and dread, are immutable. Dreams are life itself – and dreams are more true than reality; in them we behave as our true selves – if we have a soul it is there.”

  Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quote from her letter to her friend Mallarmé 1882; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, ed. Denis Rouart; Camden, London 1986 / Kinston, R. I. Moyer Bell, 1989, p. 160

• “Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours [...] They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.”

  Nancy Cartwright (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.”

  Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Actually I don't think they know I am one. They know I keep strange hours and have different people coming to the house sometimes so they might consider me a person of dubious social standing. That is so wrong. I'm the guy that airs their dirty laundry in public. Big difference.”

  Vittorio Leonardi (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake. My house was on a cliff. The thing could take Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row. Then the long pause and then the bigger shake. It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”

  William Empson (1906–1984) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Aubade" (1937), line 1

• “The City is of Night, but not of Sleep; There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain; The pitiless hours like years and ages creep, A night seems termless hell.”

  James Thomson (poet, born 1834) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Six hours like this for a few francs. Belly nipple arse in the window light, he drains the colour from me. Further to the right, Madame. And do try to be still. I shall be represented analytically and hung in great museums. The bourgeoisie will coo at such an image of a river-whore. They call it Art.”

  Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

  George Bancroft (1800–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is well known that I am available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers.”

  Vera Rubin (1928–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them to the end." Often had they been faithless; and now, while addressing them, He knows that they will all in a few hours forsake Him. Yet He trusts them; He commits His cause to their keeping. And we must love as He loved.”

  Richard Fuller (minister) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There were academics and theologians who spent hours calculating what they thought was the precise age of the Earth, on the basis of the Biblical account of it. And as early as 1650, James Ussher had come to the startlingly precise conclusion that the Earth was created in 4004 B.C. on October the 22nd—in the evening, apparently. What God had been doing that morning is still open to conjecture.”

  Jonathan Miller (1934–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I always pray before fighting. I pray in the corner, in the hotel room – maybe two hours before I go to the arena. It takes me far – I see a big difference when you pray and go into a fight; you have more strength and also you know God’s helping you.”

  Amir Khan (boxer) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Interview (Aik Din Geo Kay Sath), GEO News. (September 2009)

• “What's the punch line here? Physiologically, it doesn't come cheap being a bastard 24 hours a day.”

  Robert Sapolsky (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sleepless, Twenty-four hours of searching Searching for my life”

  Kate Havnevik (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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.”

  Mark Heard (1951–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all our circumstances talk with us; but it is in Divine language, that worldliness misunderstands, that selfishness is frightened at, and that only the children of God hear rightly and happily.”

  William Mountford (1816–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My early feeling that scientific truths are to the Christian religion much what brooks and rivers are to the ocean, has become my most vital conviction. Tempted as I was to drift with the tempest of passion, I had made shipwreck in these latter years, had not in my heaviest hours the Mercy of God, through your instrumentality, kept me always on the right path.”

  Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: December 31 1851, as translated by Kneller, Karl Alois. 1911. pp. 18. Christianity and the Leaders of Modern Science. London.

• “Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa, Ah, only one day away from your arms; I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do? And I can never, never, never … go home again.”

  Hal David (1921–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Father, dear father, come home with me now! The clock in the steeple strikes three; The house is so lonely, the hours are so long For poor weeping mother and me. Yes, we are alone, poor Benny is dead, And gone with the angels of light; And these were the very last words that he said, "I want to kiss Papa good night.”

  Henry Clay Work (1832–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio] Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say ‘good morning’ and ‘good afternoon.'”

  José Mourinho (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.”

  John D. Carmack (born 1970) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in John Carmack's .plan file (2000-05-15)

• “What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?”

  Tom Peters (born 1942) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: February 4, 2013.

• “I do soundbites. Remember, I'm the druid that kicks arse — I'm not the druid that gets up there and waffles for 3 hours.”

  Arthur Uther Pendragon (born 1954) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Upon being complimented on his answer during a Sunrise Festival Interview "David Shayler, King Arthur Pendragon and Kev the Poet at Sunrise 2008" by K Penton, on Radio 4a (2008)

• “A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.”

  Frank Westheimer (1912–2007) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Crampon, Jean E. 1988. Murphy, Parkinson, and Peter: Laws for librarians. Library Journal 113. no. 17 (October 15), p. 41.

• “On a long, lonesome highway east of Omaha You can listen to the engine moanin' out its one-note song. You can think about the woman or the girl you knew the night before. But your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do, When you're ridin' sixteen hours and there's nothin' much to do. And you don't feel much like ridin', you just wish the trip was through.”

  Bob Seger (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dusty day dawning Three hours late Open the curtains And let the rest wait My mind goes running Three thousand miles east I may miss the harvest But I won't miss the feast... And it looks like you're gonnaHave to see me again...Cause I've got a womanWho waits for me there And I need a breath of that Sweet country air”

  Dan Fogelberg (1951–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am expecting to come second, at least...I am not putting in all these hours and putting up with media trying to come second, I am not...I am trying to win this damn thing.”

  Melissa Lee (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A genuine faith lifts us above the bitterness of grief; a sense of Christ's living presence takes away all unbearable loneliness even when we are most alone. In our darkest hours, to know that our lost friend is still living, still loving us, still ours, in the highest and best sense, must be unspeakably consoling.”

  Arthur Kenney (1776–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I was listening To the wind that walks the hours I never would have heard In the candlelight I was hoping Would you shelter me from showers? I believe every word In the candlelight”

  Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.”

  John Cotton Dana (1856–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: New York Times, March 16, 2010

• “It's been a long day. I can't wait until the next day. I can't wait to sleep. I had two hours of sleep last night.”

  Jessica Dubroff (1988–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by?”

  Bruce Cockburn (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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

  Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Stroke of Genius, A Collection of Paintings and Musings on Life, Love and Art (Linda Jones Enterprises, 2007), 88.

• “Obama was one of the most violent U.S. Presidents. He launched or sustained seven wars and left office with none resolved: a record. In his last year as President, 2016, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, he dropped 26,171 bombs. It’s an interesting statistic; it’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day, on mostly civilians.”

  John Pilger (1939–2023) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in "New Cold War & looming threats," Frontline: The Hindu (India) (21 December 2018)

• “There will never be a shortage of people who get paid 150,000 bucks a year to work about 18 hours a week.”

  Michael O'Leary (businessman) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On the "pilot shortage". "Creative Minds" conference, US Embassy, 7 September 2016

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