Quotes about hour page 4
“I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Variant: I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece. And if we do not get what we so desperately need, how do we live?
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I kind of lost track of time…"
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Variant: Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.
Source: The Well of Ascension
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
“O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
An American Prayer (1978)
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it
“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Source: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Max Brooks book The Zombie Survival Guide
Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Source: Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories
“I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.”
Lenny Bruce book How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
Source: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Variant: I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.”
Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
An explanation of relativity which he gave to his secretary Helen Dukas to convey to non-scientists and reporters, as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, l56 (1957) by James B. Simpson; also in Expandable Quotable Einstein (2005) edited by Alice Calaprice<br><br>William Hermanns recorded a series of four conversations he had with Einstein and published them in his book Einstein and the Poet (1983), quoting Einstein saying this variant in a 1948 conversation: "To simplify the concept of relativity, I always use the following example: if you sit with a girl on a garden bench and the moon is shining, then for you the hour will be a minute. However, if you sit on a hot stove, the minute will be an hour." ( p. 87 http://books.google.com/books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false)<br><br>In the 1985 book Einstein in America, Jamie Sayen wrote "Einstein devised the following explanation for her [Helen Dukas] to give when asked to explain relativity: An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour." ( p. 130 http://books.google.com/books?ei=yma3TsDWK8WciQL63smAAQ&ct=book-thumbnail&id=vs3aAAAAMAAJ&dq=sayen+%22einstein+in+america%22&q=pretty+girl#search_anchor) <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications <br class="br">Variant: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
Source: Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Endless Knight
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
Source: The Separate Notebooks
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter Thirteen: Frankfurt, Door, Independent Operants
“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”
Winston S. Churchill book My Early Life
My early life, 1874–1904 (1930), Churchill, Winston S., p. 45 (1996 Touchstone Edition), ISBN 0684823454
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Variant: Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...
Source: Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Firefly Lane
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944 "Debate on the Address" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/nov/29/debate-on-the-address#column_31. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945) <br class="br">Context: A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward … Let us have no fear of the future.
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Variant: All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
Source: It Chooses You
“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 132.