More Than An Hour Quotes

#1. If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

Marco Arment

#2. How long has it been since you've slept?" Chase asked.
"I sleep." Not much.
"How long since you've slept more than an hour here and there?"
"I do not require a mother."
Chase lifted a brow. "Perhaps a wife, then?"
Bourne wished Chase were in the damn ring, too.

Sarah MacLean

#3. I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska

#4. Some nights she drowsed, but never for more than an hour. One day, Melisandre prayed, she would not sleep at all. One day she would be free of dreams.

George R R Martin

#5. I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.

Larry McMurtry

#6. You might be a redneck if you can amuse yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.

Jeff Foxworthy

#7. If you've spent more than an hour plotting a getaway route, you're either a writer or a criminal.

Or maybe a cheating spouse.

Peggy Rothschild

#8. Reek took not more than an hour to relate what would've taken the most intelligent man five or six hours
that is, five minutes of speech and the rest of the five hours to recover from the nausea caused by having to utter such shameless rot ...

Sinclair Lewis

#9. Ah, but that would require a spending time with God--more than an hour or two on Sunday, I suspect--getting to know Him, communing with Him, praising Him.

Lynn Austin

#10. Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "she's been more than an hour in there! When the priests set about cleansing her of her sins, the choir-boys have to form in line to pass the buckets of filth and empty them in the street!

Emile Zola

#11. ... it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a hazard to society. If unpleasantness is to be avoided, they must be made to go outdoors and work off their animal spirits.

Alan Bradley

#12. I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Maurice Jarre

#13. Not another word was said for more than an hour. They only walked home together with aching feet and tired hearts.

Markus Zusak

#14. We'd been shooting this idiotic conversation for more than an hour.

Greg Sestero

#15. I go to the gym three times a week and do Pilates three times a week, but not for more than an hour. It's not healthy.

Brittany Snow

#16. I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off ... I can't sit still too long.

Ellen DeGeneres

#17. By modern standards the whole of greater London, including Southwark and Westminster, was small. It stretched only about two miles from north to south and three from east to west, and could be crossed on foot in not much more than an hour.

Bill Bryson

#18. I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

John Hockenberry

#19. Savannah, I've been talking my ass off for more than an hour now, telling you shit no one's ever heard anything about, hoping that I'll say something, Jesus God, anything that will convince you to have sex with me.

Suzanne Brockmann

#20. I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

Stephanie Laurens

#21. We'll do it,' said Will Scott comfortably, shouting over the tumult. 'If it's no more than an hour, we'll do it.'

'Christ, I believe you're sorry, you flaming maniac,' said Lymond. 'Don't I keep telling you that this is bloody childishness, and don't you keep agreeing?

Dorothy Dunnett

#22. The moment I wake up, I have to eat. If I don't eat, I feel like my blood pressure is dropping. I get crabby if I have gone more than half an hour without eating.

Esha Gupta

#23. Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Edmund Burke

#24. ... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.

Louisa May Alcott

#25. Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born
a hundred million years
and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

Mark Twain

#26. We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

David Rolf

#27. After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

Peter Vecsey

#28. In Joey's neighborhood the blocks were short and there were stop signs on every corner. It was hard to get going more than fifteen miles an hour, and on those lazy streets Joey's refurbished 1973 El Dorado convertible got about eight blocks to the gallon.

Laurence Shames

#29. There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.

Aaron Spelling

#30. It was the kind of closeness that didn't need conversation to sustain itself: quite often we would meet, travel to the gym, work out on the weights, box a few rounds, spend half an hour sparring at karate, and speak no more than ten words to one another.

Gregory David Roberts

#31. I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in a day, I'm like, 'Whoa, you guys. That's two train rides, and I have to plan for an hour-and-a-half lunch with my cat.'

Allison Tolman

#32. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Plato

#33. There is an hour when you realize: Here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time

Carol Oates

#34. It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

Henry Rollins

#35. If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

Marc Maron

#36. You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.

Hal Roach

#37. An Australian study of more than 12,000 adults estimated that every single hour spent watching television after the age of 25 decreased the viewer's life expectancy by 22 minutes.

Tom Rath

#38. Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

James Levine

#39. I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.

Luther Lassiter

#40. Children woke up at six-thirty in the morning and shifted directly into fourth gear. Fourteen hours later they rushed straight into sleep at more than a hundred miles an hour without decelerating.

Peter Hoeg

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

Lokendra Singh

#42. We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.

Sam Owen

#43. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

Vladimir Nabokov

#44. One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

Vladimir Lenin

#45. Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Plato

#46. I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

Roger Bannister

#47. 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

#48. I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way ... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

Joel Kinnaman

#49. You can learn more about a woman in an hour playing with her, than you can in a lifetime of conversations.
Michael Kavanaugh,Reputable Surrender

Riley Murphy

#50. Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.

Weike Wang

#51. Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

V.S. Naipaul

#52. Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.

John Holt

#53. What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four.

Lorenzo De' Medici

#54. If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

Leo Tolstoy

#55. I had an abiding respect for the professionalism of career prostitutes, who wore their dishonesty more openly than lawyers, both of whom bill by the hour.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#56. A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

Robert Breault

#57. I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

Lech Walesa

#58. One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Coventry Patmore

#59. I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

Smith Wigglesworth

#60. Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.

George Berkeley

#62. I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

Brett Ratner

#63. Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.

Liza Featherstone

#64. With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.

Alan Brennert

#65. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#66. So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back.

Cecelia Ahern

#67. To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

Rudolf Otto

#68. It's possible to replace every asset you have - except your time. None of us gets any more than 60 minutes to an hour, or 24 hours in a day. If you're not living that time in abundance, perhaps it's time for a change...

Peggy A. Lusk

#69. An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

Dick Cavett

#70. Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

Maggie Q

#71. A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

Norman Vincent Peale

#72. An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me.

Nalini Singh

#73. If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

Emmanuel Jal

#74. I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

Alice Lowe

#75. But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week.

Lynn Austin

#76. If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

Bertrand Russell

#77. I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

Cassandra Clare

#78. He had a goatee that was maybe growing into something that was more than a goatee, which made him look like an angry barista at an indie coffee shop whose dreams of becoming a successful screenwriter were dwindling by the hour.

Lev Grossman

#79. That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.

Henry David Thoreau

#80. There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.

James Corden

#81. You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have
to stay - that's why I get the dollar more an hour.

Bill Burr

#82. The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

Cesar Romero

#83. To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

George Whitefield

#84. All in all, the lunch date was fine. Like an opened can of soda in its second hour. If you were thirsty, you might take a sip or two, but I carried more hopes walking in to the restaurant than I did walking out.

Heather Dugan

#85. One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a half. That's totally unnecessary. If it's cardiovascular, you don't need more than 15 to 17 or 18 minutes if it's vigorous.

Jack LaLanne

#86. That's when he'd run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and stank of sweat and forgot for an hour or two everything that he was and what he had to do and the people who'd get hurt along the way.

Carmen Amato

#87. You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

Idries Shah

#88. Did they know that he stood on the bow every morning, noon, and night for an hour ... this prayer of thanks to a God more a God than any to be found in book-bound, altar-bound Religion?

Jack Kerouac

#89. I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

Artie Lange

#90. In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.

Alfred Delp

#91. Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Robert Frost

#92. There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.

Eliza Lynn Linton

#93. I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

Roger Clemens

#94. A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn