Hours Quotes - Page 28

If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

I, for one, am exhausted. I’ve been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)

Really if it's an hour or two after you've fallen asleep because you're in such a deep sleep at that point.

There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place, you have to treat each episode like an hour of TV, and think that maybe this will be the only episode that anyone will ever watch. You want to have some sort of beginning, middle, and end to the episode, even if you have storylines that are carrying over. You still want it to feel like a cohesive hour of entertainment. And you can't think about both at the same time.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature films, and Lev Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoyevsky would write television series because there are some stories you just can't tell in two hours.

I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things...I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

[on 8/24/04, before entering a Los Angeles hospital for heart valve replacement surgery] If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half.

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

Measure the success of your days by the lives touched vs the hours passed.