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“I think we are all gifted as children, but we aren’t gifted with the same gifts. In crowded, poor schools, an overwhelmed teacher can’t always help us discover what our gifts are. I am grateful my mom was a frustrated artist. At home we drew murals, created puppet shows, had craft hours, went to the library, visited museums. I’m certain without my mom, I wouldn’t have been an artist today.”
Sandra Cisneros (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how her mother influenced her future creative direction in “Interview with Sandra Cisneros” in Latino Book Review (2018 Oct 1)
“I often wish I was asked more about the craft of the verse. I spent so many agonizing hours ensuring every line break was precise, every word and repetition chosen with care—because it was important to me to maintain the integrity of the lyric while also advancing the narrative. It’s that tightrope walk I’m studying in other people’s work and am continuously looking to understand further.”
Elizabeth Acevedo (born 1988) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On desiring to be asked about her writing style in interviews in “Meet National Book Award Finalist Elizabeth Acevedo” in LitHub (2018 Oct 29)
“…There's no secret, no shortcut. Once you accept that being a writer or a creator is just really hard and takes a lot of hours of slogging through crappy first drafts, you just keep producing, and then you turn around and it's done. That's the magic.”
Esperanza Spalding (born 1984) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On becoming a writer in “Esperanza Spalding Talks Recording an Album in 77 Hours, Sexism in Music & Nicki Minaj” in Billboard (September 22, 2017)
“Minutes stretch into hours, an eternity that drags like death. Each second that passes is another second my mind tumbles in guilt What if they’re captured? What if they die? I can’t have more people perish for this. I can’t have more blood stain my hands.”
Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…But now that my son has grown, I feel like I was at my happiest when I was writing while raising my child…Now that I can write as much as I want 24 hours a day, it’s not as if I produce any greater work now than I did in the past.”
Yōko Ogawa (born 1962) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how she once balanced motherhood and writing in “Meet the Japanese writer inspired by the wisdom of Anne Frank” in Independent (22 Aug 2019)
“The Chicana may be working 16 hours a day to support for her children, but she will still be viewed as a sexual object rather than a human being. Unless she is over the age of 35 or 40, she will be seen more as a face and body than as a fellow worker and fellow victim of oppression.”
Elizabeth Martinez (1925–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His incredible, self imposed, ascetic restriction on sleeping in bed was known to many. For 44 years of his monastic life, he slept for 4 or 5 hours per night sitting in his chair.”
Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They all...sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, something to hold off the terrifying largeness, the impossibility, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.”
Hanya Yanagihara (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Research shows a (COVID-19) virus on a smooth surface survives for several hours. It can survive for days with suitable temperature and humidity. For example, it is suitable for it to live in a 20°C air-conditioned environment or in 40 to 50 percent humidity. Some researches have shown previously discovered coronaviruses can possibly survive for five days.”
Jiang Rongmeng first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jiang Rongmeng (2020) cited in "No evidence of coronavirus transmitting via faecal-oral route: Expert" on Malaysiakini, 4 February 2020.
“It takes a couple of hours, but I finally see results. They are exactly what I expected and the opposite of what I’d hoped.”
“We'd heard that General Taylor was now back in Bastogne. Everybody was ordered to shave within twenty-four hours and to remove their boots once a day and massage their feet. I refused the foot order, having tried and found it only made things worse. Come to think of it, I refused the shaving order, too, as did most of us.”
Donald Malarkey (1921–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remain in Me." It is the Word of God who gives this order, expresses this wish. Remain in Me, not for a few moments, a few hours which must pass away, but "remain..." permanently, habitually, Remain in Me, pray in Me, adore in Me, love in Me, suffer in Me, work and act in Me.”
Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Earth has no more distressing spectacle than that of a predator suddenly striking down some defenseless creature innocently singing or attending its young, no sight more pitifully repulsive than the hideously mangled remains of what, a few hours before, was a beautiful animal enjoying its life.”
Alexander Skutch (1904–2004) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Imperative Call", American Birds, Vol. 47, Iss. 1 (Spring 1993), p. 31–32
“... Mr. Nussey, the king's apothecary, ... whom I knew very intimately later in life, told me that the king confided to him all his secrets, and the knowledge, if written down, would set all England in a blaze. He was with the royal patient to the last, the king never letting go of his hand for twenty-four hours, which gave him an agony of cramp all but insupportable.”
Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should get the Congressional Medal for creating employments because we have created billions of man hours of maintenance work for people in the future. We are the job creators of the future.”
Joe Armstrong (programmer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he divers were able to commune with these animals for hours... and get footage that no one else has ever gotten.”
James Nestor (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If they waited a couple of hours they could have commemorated two massacres in Croke Park.”
Colm O'Rourke (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On RTÉ, 21 November 2020, stating that a Dublin win against Meath's 15 players was like the actual killing of 14 people.
“I don’t really the count hours I put into my paintings, to be quite honest. I suspect I might be surprised at how many it takes for an average artwork, because before I even begin painting I’ll tend to ‘lose myself’ in making the drawings and corrections and variations involved in the preliminary stage.”
Ted Nasmith (born 1956) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ted Nasmith (April 25, 2012)
“Let us get out of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A something that the ancients called divine can be found and felt there still.”
Richard Jefferies (1848–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deke [Slayton], I’ve spent a month now at flight school, have flown fifteen hours and soloed, and after much soul-searching, I have decided to resign from the program. I guess flying isn’t my cup of tea.”
Brian O'Leary (1940–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This guy [Security Guard] was in a navy suit with an unfortunate orange tie, and was nearing us with the caution of a man on a minimum wage zero hours contract who planned to give his employers exactly what they paid for.”
Ben Aaronovitch (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Softly, O midnight hours! Move softly o'er the bowers Where lies in happy sleep a girl so fair: For ye have power, men say, Our hearts in sleep to sway And cage cold fancies in a moonlight snare.”
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song. Softly, O Midnight Hours; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721.
“The Company that Broke Canada a Youtube documentary (1.5 hours 3,075,151 views published Nov 4, 2023)”
“Nothing will stop us....they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours....dark to light!”
Ashli Babbitt (1985–2021) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 5 January 2021 tweet
“In a few hours it would be midnight and I would have gone a full day on my own without a drink. And one day could mean two. If I stayed off the booze, I knew I'd be able to write again. I started the Dart and headed north up the Coast Highway. There was a blueness to the ocean I had never noticed before.”
Dan Fante (1944–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For young actors, the more you can stand around or sit there—-even when you’re not shooting-—just sit there on the set and shut up for three hours, you’ll learn more in one day than you’ll ever learn in film school.”
Neal McDonough (born 1966) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Neal McDonough on “Greater” (August 24, 2016)
“With regards to pacing… when you are recording day after day, eight hours at a stretch, you need to physically as well as mentally pace yourself, so there is a consistency of energy, and comprehension, and especially characterisation.”
Simon Prebble (born 1942) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An interview with Simon Prebble (March 2009)
“Writing music for me is easy, and is less stressful than a nine-to-five job. What I find hard is going to meetings and dealing with lawyers. The Hollywood lifestyle is hectic and often you have to survive on just four hours sleep before starting again.”
Lorne Balfe (born 1976) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Composing a career of note in LA (9 July 2002)
“Do we love one another enough to say that all life has value, and that dignity lies in respecting that truth until the very end? It’s suffering and heart-wrenching, but amazing things can happen in those final months and days and hours. I’ve seen it, and I’m far from alone. Don’t deprive the vulnerable of love. There should be no off-ramp, but lots of roadside assistance.”
Kathryn Jean Lopez (born 1976) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Standing Athwart More Suicide (February 10, 2020)
“I’m really enjoying quarantine, because I can rest. I don't have to see anybody. I can just stay home 24 hours a day and stay in bed, my favorite place.”
Youn Yuh-jung (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“American G.I.s don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's. Get out of Vietnam now and alive. This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Our program for American G.I.s can be heard at 16:30 hours. Now here's Connie Francis singing "I Almost Lost My Mind".”
Hanoi Hannah (1931–2016) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a August 1967 broadcast directed to U.S. troops, as quoted in "Viet Nam Generation Journal & Newsletter" (November 1991)
“My parents took my ambitions seriously. They took an hour each way to training. They were waiting for me, and when I wanted to go home alone, I took the bus from Warsaw to Leszno for two hours. When I was late, I had to seize an opportunity, sometimes someone took pity and took me away.”
Robert Lewandowski (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Public work has long been used as a social safety net, especially by women who went out shopping during working hours.”
Renato Brunetta (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is always easiest to write for the mood I'm in... and after a few hours, I am almost always IN the mood of the music. Because... that's what music does.”
Kevin MacLeod (born 1972) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am Kevin MacLeod, the composer in millions of YouTube videos, thousands of films, and apparently one amusement park. AMA! (October 14, 2014)
“After some amount of introspection, I can only conclude that this is the afterlife, or some entryway to the afterlife... or a really cool club in the Meatpacking district after-hours.”
Kevin MacLeod (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm always happy and relaxed. Nobody can stay happy 24 hours but I'm content with my life. I am content with where God has placed me. I am content with my work. I am comfortable and I thank God for it.” Nnaji's interview (July2007)”
Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I watched my mother and other women in the village operate as donkeys. They would carry on their backs firewood, bananas, a bag of other stuff and a baby. I saw them get abused, beaten and work 24 hours a day” “I remember kneeling by my bedside every night asking God to send me far away from this environment.”
Jennifer Riria (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thankfully, I’ll be in South Africa soon and will meet with authorities there. If I had any doubts that some claiming to be democrats are simply replicating Zanu PF tactics, the threats and cyberbullying I’ve faced over the past 48 hours have erased them. It’s truly disappointing and sad to realize that people I’ve trusted for over two decades are turning out to be the very things they oppose.”
Priscilla Misihairambwi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sat for hours in front of a screen Mouse will tell you what you are seeing When you get home, how to relax Another screen for you to look at Welcome to the world of work It's a kind of living where you give more than you'll ever receive Welcome to the world of work Only place a loyal servant can be kicked in the teeth”
Gilbert O'Sullivan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm tired of speaking for hours, so from now on, I will reduce the duration of my 'Returning Happiness to People' speech ever [sic] Friday and will have my ministers who oversee each topic to speak in the programme.”
Prayut Chan-o-cha (born 1954) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PM to shorten 'Return to happiness' speeches but in the end happiness is never come true (31 March 2015)
“There will have to be euthanizations that happen. But there are also animals who have survived that are going to be in critical need for food in the next 24 hours.”
Lana Popham (born 1968) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Death toll in B.C. expected to rise after record flooding devastatesprovince published November 17 updated November 18, 2021
“The nation has come to the end of its psychological endurance. Many people are beginning to despair. Now it is not days but hours that separate us from a national catastrophe. Honesty compels one to ask the question: Did things have to come to this?”
Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There has been a number of concerns expressed about the loss of productivity that this measure (COVID-19 curfew hours) is having. We need to get back to normal but, of course, to do so safely. This is not to say that we are abandoning work from home totally; it will be an option but not a requirement.”
Andrew Holness (born 1972) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andrew Holness (2021) cited in "PM Announces New Measures To Contain COVID-19" on Jamaica Information Service, 8 December 2021.
“The clean-cooking programme would help ensure that the long hours women spend fetching firewood can instead be spent on productive economic activities”
Samia Suluhu Hassan (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is imperative that we show our friends (Samoa), especially during their darkest hours, that we stand with them. Recent weeks have been very troubling for the Samoan People, who have been witnessing what is arguably a constitutional and political crisis.”
David W. Panuelo (born 1964) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David W. Panuelo (2021) cited in: "Pacific island swears in its first female PM in a tent after she is locked out of Parliament" in CNN, 25 May 2021.
“Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep, nine if you’re ugly,”
Betty White (1922–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Imagine if we would say 'Kharkiv's population has 24 hours to leave the city.' Is it hard to turn Kharkiv into ruins with our weapons? All of it in its entirety, erase it from the face of the earth, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, not a problem at all.”
Vladimir Solovyov (born 1963) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russian State TV Host Says Erasing Ukrainian Cities 'Not a Problem at All'", Newsweek (19 September 2022).
“I learned how much I love to do musical theater because I get to sing and dance and act, do it all in two hours.”
Laura Bell Bundy (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We also believe that our struggle helps to influence the attitudes of people in other dominated African countries, especially in Southern Africa, although, of course, we are also aware that whatever other peoples can do by way of destroying colonialism or racism in their countries helps our struggle enormously. We could talk about this for hours; that’s the briefest answer I can give you.”
Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my words, the story is a short drink, but capable of startling you for hours, something like a little shot of tequila in the middle of a game that we have voluntarily joined.”
José Baroja (born 1983) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Original source: En mis palabras, el cuento es un trago breve, pero capaz de sobresaltarte por horas, algo así como un caballito de tequila en medio de un juego al que voluntariamente nos hemos sumado.. Grupo Ígneo (202…