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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Quote by William Faulkner about work, shame, drinking, things, man, day, love

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

Quote by Michael Jackson about sleep, rightness, time

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the...

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Quote by Jim Rohn about value

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

Quote by Priscilla Presley about life, night, use

It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a...

Quote by E. J. Pratt about poetry, night, woman, face

Don't count every hour in the day, make every hour in the...

Don't count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.

Quote by Mark Amend about time, day, thinking

Rush hour: that hour when traffic is almost at a standstill.

Rush hour: that hour when traffic is almost at a standstill.

Quote by J. B. Morton about opinion

I'm often amazed at the way politicians -who spend hours pouring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks -are certain they know precisly what God's views are on everything

Quote by Simon Hoggart about politics, opinion, public, god

They did interviews with my wife and daughter - they were...

They did interviews with my wife and daughter - they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

Quote by Willie Aames about attack, fasting, food, wife, fear, heart, day

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Quote by Charles Babbage

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about anger, moment, day, life

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about creation, unforeseen, poetry, things

As much preparation as I had made for the old man...

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about old, olderness, man

Dick Smith is the best makeup man in the world. I'd get...

Dick Smith is the best makeup man in the world. I'd get to the studio by 4:30. We'd work on the makeup for four and a half hours.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about work, world, man

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about man

It's probably just 10 hours out of 365 days in front of...

It's probably just 10 hours out of 365 days in front of the camera, film in the camera. Not enough. It's not enough.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about day, film

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I...

Quote by Erykah Badu about day, world, life, people

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a...

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about imagination

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful...

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about olderness, youth, age, old, work, day, time, life

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