#hours

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write. ↗

— George Lopez

#beach #day #desk #eight #grandmother

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#any #boot #bruised #could #deal

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#funny #hours #jokes #more #morning

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#afternoon #between #breakfast #clock #earlier

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#hours #into #job #put

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. ↗

— Dudley Field Malone

#discussion #good #hours #three #worth

It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#90 minutes #concert #day #done #end

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#bad #bad thing #day #fame #goes

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#difficult #five #flying #hours #internally

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#computer #e-mail #front #hours #house