Hours Quotes - Page 14

• The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

  Joseph Addison

  Wise, Men, Ideas

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.309

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• As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dedication, Ideas, Two

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• If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Stars, Powerful, Eye

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Pain, Science, Opportunity

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• For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Years, Action

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• If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Causes, Helping

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• I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

  Julia Child

  Twenties, Four

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.

  Alex Prager

  Two, Lasts, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the weekend. I'm not going to be working while I'm with my son in the morning and in the evening.

  David Plotz

  Morning, Son, Weekend

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If I start talking about my own hopes, it'll take hours. The biggest hope is that there's not any more discrimination between men and women. That women could have equal rights. It's very painful when you see in your family that a brother can do anything he wants, but at the same age, you can't.

  Malina Suliman

  Brother, Men, Rights

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

  Ray LaHood

  Swings, Bridges, Rivers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America

  Lindsey Graham

  Technology, Years, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Agreement, Average

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

  Ester Dean

  Sleep, Long, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.

  Vera Farmiga

  Son, College, Eight

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I've seen all the shows, I've seen all the movies, but ultimately I just want a 2-hour movie that takes me to another time and place - something that entertains me.

  Damon Lindelof

  Stars, Fans, Want

  "Damon Lindelof Talks Star Trek Into Darkness, the Editing Process, Why They Changed the Order of the First Two Scenes, Trek 3, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.

  Ben Stiller

  New York, Fun, Flirting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Trying, Fifty

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

  Willie Nelson

  Exercise, Thinking, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Punishment

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen (2017). “Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula”, p.622, Open Road Media

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• In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

  Horace

  Life, Dawn, Care

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• Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

  Horace

  Sleep, Wine, Leisure

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• Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

  Horace

  Change, Nice, Years

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• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

  George D. Prentice

  New York, Twilight, Cities

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