Famous quotes containing the words hours and/or long:
“And how many hours a day did you do lessons? said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Ten hours the first day, said the Mock Turtle: nine the next, and so on.
What a curious plan! exclaimed Alice.
Thats the reason theyre called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice or wealth and chastity, which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)