Quotes of: Hour Keyword

took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?

Snuff

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Selected Poems

During those hours, I had zero social awareness, as I was asleep. All the joggers who waved at me while I was walking can vouch for that.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

On Such a Full Sea

Pregnant women need dick too. And I’m here to sell it to them. I charge by the inch and by the hour. 

So many chairs, and no time to sit

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.

The Stand

His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.

The Sea of Tranquility

Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?

Some Kind of Wonderful

After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith,...

Swann's Way

He first noticed it on the plane ride. There was an odor about her and it was becoming more pronounced with each passing hour. It was like the smell of rotting meat.

Tagged: The Apocalypse

A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

Things That Are

Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A book can take you to another land, even if just for a few hours. --Cat Spydell

The Time Traveler's Apprentice at Hollywood High

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.

One Man's Meat

Just one pit stop, Rae. One pit stop that won't even take an hour. Then it's over. It's finally over.

One By One

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

Pretty Boy Dead

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

The Prophet

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

This Side of Paradise