I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.
When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.
At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.
There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.
