Quotes of: Half-hours Keyword

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world.

The Separate Notebooks

My gaze lands on the digital clock on my nightstand as it flicks to 12:01 AM. Hours spent in Orane’s world, and one minute has passed in mine.

Sing Sweet Nightingale

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

Survivor

Witty sayings don’t grow on bumpers the way babies do. I was raised by a single rush hour.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence

Stay

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

Treachery in Death

He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

Paris in April

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Pride and Prejudice

We talked for four hours. Well, I talked for four, and she listened for two. 

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

After our date, I spent about an hour trying to get in her pants before finally giving up. Her pocket was just too tight.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Last night I stayed up late talking about tomorrow, and today I regret it because I was way off (by about 24 hours).

This Book is Not FOR SALE

But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.

The Voice at the Back Door

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

VALIS

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Wuthering Heights

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

We Were Liars

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

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