Hours Quotes - Page 32

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality, and if you're not producing enough, make a schedule and stick to it.

My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to." But then within like an hour, they were like, "You're really a writer." "Yeah, I really am. I'm a writer, and a director, and a producer, and an actor, and a painter, and I do all that stuff in the Lush Life." It was great.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

One hour with Mother is more than Without her, an age.

If I just take an hour yoga class, I will come out differently than I went in.

I suffocated for hours, until I turned on...music.

I've played too many tennis hours.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

As I turn 91... I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time I wrote three novels - all of which were extraordinarily poor. I decided after that to go and get my MFA.

At night I can write for hours.

About working with Marilyn Monroe.We got along very well. My only complaint about her was that she was late all the time, but she was late out of fear as much as anything else, but it was hard to sit around and wait. She was usually an hour or two late every morning.

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

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.

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.