Quotes by Hours Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command. Douglas Adams arriving hours would-be He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now. Douglas Adams hours half thinking When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure. E. B. White pajamas hours adventure Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless? E. T. A. Hoffmann hours week usual Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. E. Lockhart astonishment hours should Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Douglas Adams hours wells minutes An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man. E. Stanley Jones hours joy men She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour. E. M. Forster hours half Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him. Dwight L. Moody thanks hours hope I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do? Edith Pearlman sentences hours A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't. Edna Ferber waking hours long As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. Edward Bond hours stage lasts The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon hours one-day men Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. Edward Kennedy hours sacrifice political And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? Edward Young hours poor eternity Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. Edwin Hubbel Chapin hours birth influence In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care - so if it wasn't about love, what would be the point? Elif Batuman health-care hours care I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory. Eliyahu M. Goldratt inventory hours lost For me, every hour is grace. Elie Wiesel hours grace An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage. Eliyahu M. Goldratt mirages hours saved «7891011121314151617»