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• “Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”

  Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm — spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.”

  Laura Bush (born 1946) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Bringing Out the Best in Everyone You Coach : Use the Enneagram System for Exceptional Results (2009) by Ginger Lapid-Bogda, p. 123

• “I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?”

  Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.”

  Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: (1967), cited in Lee Kuan Yew: race, culture and genes, Michael Barr in Journal of Contemporary Asia (January 1999)

• “There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.”

  Bill Bailey (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “On the boundless plain careering By an unseen compass steering, Wildly flying, reappearing, — With untamed fire their broad eyes glowing In every step a grand pride showing, Of no servile moment knowing, —Happy as the trees and flowers, In their instinct cradled hours, Happier in fuller powers, —See the wild herd nobly ranging, Nature varying, not changing, Lawful in their lawless ranging.”

  Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “With equal sweetness the commissioned hours Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers. The weeds unthankful raise their vile heads high, Flaunting back insult to the gracious sky; While the dear flowers, wht fond humility, Uplift the eyelids of a starry eye In speechless homage, and, from grateful hearts, Perfume that homage all around imparts.”

  Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You’re you, Jo. You’re you and everything that went into you, from the way you sit for hours and watch Di’k when you want to think, to the way you turn a tenth of a second faster in response to something blue than to something red. You’re all you ever thought, all you ever hoped, and all you ever hated, too. And all you've learned.”

  Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This is petty…You’ve been on the plane for 25 hours and nobody has talked to you, and they ask you to get off the plane by the back ramp…You just wonder, 'Where is their sense of manners? Where is their sense of courtesy?'”

  Newt Gingrich (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This City in Ukraine was once Home to almost 50 thousand people. It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life. But on the 26th of April 1986, it suddenly became uninhabitable. The nearby Nuclear Power Station of Chernobyl exploded. And less than in 48 hours the city was evacuated. No one has lived here since”

  David Attenborough (born 1926) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: CHERNOBYL AND A LIFE ON OUR PLANET (15.10.2020)

• “The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. And in a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.”

  David Attenborough (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained—tending bar, mopping toilets—commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.”

  Cory Doctorow (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”

  Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed in: David Hooper, ‎Kenneth Whyld (1996) The Oxford companion to chess. p. 8.

• “Machine-devoured, all his hours were given o’er to that insidious circuitry, and old grew he, unnoticing, in the service of his engines.”

  Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.”

  Robert Nozick (1938–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “July 29, 1869. — Went two and a half hours west to village of Ponda, where a head Arab, called by the natives 'Tipo Tipo' lives; bis name is Hamid bin Mohammed bin Juma Borajib. He presented a goat, a piece of white calico, and four big bunches of beads, also a bag of holens sorghum, and apologized because it was so little.”

  David Livingstone (1813–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours.”

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

• “This is my body, and I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?”

  Lance Armstrong (born 1971) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in "Lance Armstrong Ruined My Gym" by Neal Pollack, in Slate (1 July 2005)

• “Come out — pretty Rose-Bud, — my lone, timid one! Come forth from thy green leaves, and peep at the sun! For little he does, in these dull autumn hours, At height'ning of beauty, or laughing with flowers.”

  Hannah Flagg Gould (1788–1865) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Rose-Bud of Autumn" in The Youth's Coronal (published 1850).

• “Hope had grown grey hairs, Hope had mourning on, Trenched with tears, carved with cares, Hope was twelve hours gone.”

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “How strange it is, he thought, how so many senseless things shape our destiny. For the rifle range had been a senseless thing, as senseless as a billiard table or a game of cards — designed for one thing only, to please the keeper of the station. And yet the hours he'd spent there had shaped toward this hour and end, to this single instant on this restricted slope of ground.”

  Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The days, the nights, flow one by one above us, The hours go silently over our lifted faces, We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea. Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together. We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.”

  Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The truth of the matter is — and I'm always a bit reluctant to say this because people think you're a bit unfeeling. The truth of this, on 9/11, people who — myself and others — were so unbelievably focused on what was happening that we were, for many, many hours, I think, spared the agony of loss.”

  Peter Jennings (1938–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Jo by diving into the strong and murky current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm. My conduct and conversations during the next several hours, to the extent that I can remember them, make no sense to me at all.”

  Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Televised statement applogizing for and rationalizing his actions in the Chappaquiddick incident after his guilty plea and conviction (25 July 1969)

• “For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

  Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”

  John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1906)

• “Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.”

  Camille Paglia (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Weak watery sun, but sun nonetheless. Why does it take me nearly 2 hours just to get through the morning emails? Pah, poo and pants.”

  Stephen Fry (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You ever take a dump, made you feel you'd just slept for twelve hours?”

  David Mamet (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Robert, after spending 48 hours with this fish, we have transcended the conventional "food-to-consumer" relationship. This fish is now my friend.”

  Darby Conley (born 1970) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun, page 129 and daily strip for January 9, 2002

• “It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six hours ago I came and sat down here, And ponder'd sadly, wearied and forlorn.”

  William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And what do ye say then? — That Spring long departed Has brought forth no child to the softness and showers; — That we slept and we dreamed through the Summer of flowers; We dreamed of the Winter, and waking dead-hearted Found Winter upon us and waste of dull hours.”

  William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dawn talks to Day Over dew-gleaming flowers, Night flies away Till the resting of hours: Fresh are thy feet And with dreams thine eyes glistening, Thy still lips are sweet Though the world is a-listening. O Love, set a word in my mouth for our meeting, Cast thine arms round about me to stay my heart's beating! O fresh day, O fair day, O long day made ours!”

  William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Truthfully, the job security in this business is uncertain, the hours are long, long and lonely, the audience is increasingly small, fickle and dissatisfied, like 3 of the 7 Dwarves. Respect is nonexistent, success fleeting; you'd be better off in a boy band, where at least you'd get laid before they made you obsolete. (2004) Popimage interview”

  Grant Morrison (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “So let love take us through the hours, I won't be complainin' 'Cause this is love power.”

  Michael Jackson (1958–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Who do you think I am, girl? If you could pick all the words of the vocabulary that your mother taught you, who do you think I am? And this is only a couple hours, can you imagine what it would be like a couple days with me? I live a hundred years a day.”

  Charles Manson (1934–2017) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Interview by Penny Daniels (1989)

• “And to fill all these white pages that are left for me with the same monotonous question: at what hour do the hours end?”

  Octavio Paz (1914–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “On the law that requires women to wait twenty-four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty.”

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

• “So precious life is! Even to the old The hours are as a miser’s coins!”

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He who has not spent hours, days, or years with someone he loves cannot know what happiness is, for he is unable to imagine a protracted miracle like this — one which makes out of ordinary sights and events the most enchanted existence.”

  André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!”

  Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott

• “Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.”

  Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!”

  Bob Hope (1903–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What is there more mysterious than clarity?… What more capricious than the way in which light and shade are distributed over hours and over men?”

  Paul Valéry (1871–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought-experiment. At the camp fire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.”

  Martin Amis (1949–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This moment was the apotheosis of the postmodern era — the era of images and perceptions. Wind conditions were also favourable; within hours, Manhattan looked as though it had taken 10 megatons.”

  Martin Amis (1949–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy," he said, "was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise.”

  Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.”

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) first seen 1747 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 1747

• “The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.”

  Sam Harris (born 1967) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sam Harris, Drugs and the Meaning of Life (5 July 2011)

• “I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine.”

  Richard Steele (1671–1729) first seen 1708 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Eleven at night, 5 January 1708

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