Hours Quotes - Page 24

• I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

  Amanda Hocking

  Editors, Want, Mail

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• There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

  Merle Haggard

  Police, Rumor, Looks

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• I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won't need one. But if you're running an hour-and-a-half to two hours or more, maybe you need a little bit of the electrolytes.

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Race, Two

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• I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Senior, Mom, Friday

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• My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Morning, Giving, House

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• My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.

  Michael Irvin

  Monday, Games, New Orleans

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• I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Couple, Coffee, Writing

  "Exclusive Interview with Bong Joon-ho" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 07, 2007.

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• The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Up Early, Dancing, Sound

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• I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

  Miranda July

  Sleep, Eight, Obsessing

  "This much I know: Miranda July" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2011.

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• I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.

  Zachary Knighton

  Baby, Home, Want

  "'Happy Endings' Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton interview". Interview with Catorina Wightman, www.digitalspy.com. March 11, 2012.

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• It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

  Carson Kressley

  Scratches, Program, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Sleep, Night, Two

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• For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Jobs, Corporations, Way

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• Been making love for hours and, baby, we're still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain't going to be able to move.

  Barry White

  Girl, Baby, Strong

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• My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

  Jon Stewart

  Two, Rocks, Hands

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• I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

  Frank Zappa

  Social Taboos, Long, Towers

  Song: Bobby Brown Goes Down, Album: Sheik Yerbouti

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• I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

  Lee Majors

  Night, Two, One Day

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

  Marian McPartland

  House, Risk, Would Be

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Military, People, Shooting

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• Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

  Jo Nesbo

  Morning, Ideas, Mind

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• As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

  Keith Olbermann

  Process, Performances

  "The Confessions of Keith Olbermann". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2011.

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• If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

  Nick Offerman

  Home, Hours In The Day, Watches

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• I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

  Douglas Preston

  Morning, Sunday, Guy

  "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

  Evan Peters

  Hard Work, Done, Television

  "Tribeca Exclusive Interview: Evan Peters Talks ‘American Horror Story’ And ‘Adult World’". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.inquisitr.com. April 21, 2013.

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• My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Sleep, Giving

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