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Letter "H" » half-hour
«The G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.»
«The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.»
«May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead»
Author: Irish Blessings
| Keywords:
dead, devil, get to, half-hour, half, heaven, hour, like the devil, the Devil, The Devil You Know
«Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
answered, half-hour, preparation, week, Wilson
«It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.»
«I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
half-hour, screens
«If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Children,
Social service
| Keywords:
half-hour, serviceable
«It is better to busy one's self about the smallest thing in the world than to treat a half hour as worthless»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
half-hour, smallest, the smallest, worthless
«The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
exercising, half-hour, propitious, thronged, thronging, waking
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