HOURS in Classic Quotes

1  It could go on like that for hours.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 13

2  It took him about five hours to get ready.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 5

3  It took him about an hour to comb his hair.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 4

4  I sat there for about a half hour after he left.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 4

5  She was the type that keeps you standing up for hours.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 12

6  Once I get started, I can go on for hours if I feel like it.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 8

7  It took me about an hour to just get her goddam brassiere off.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 13

8  I stayed in the bathroom for about an hour, taking a bath and all.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 14

9  One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 1

10  Then, the next morning, in chapel, be made a speech that lasted about ten hours.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 3

11  Anyway, it took me about a half hour to find out where they all worked and all in Seattle.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 10

12  He kept holding onto my wrists and I kept calling him a sonuvabitch and all, for around ten hours.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 6

13  She used to practice about two hours every day, right in the middle of the hottest weather and all.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 4

14  It took me about an hour, because I had to use Stradlater's lousy typewriter, and it kept jamming on me.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 5

15  I sort of hated old Sally by the time we got in the cab, after listening to that phony Andover bastard for about ten hours.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 17

16  If they just dropped their dough in her basket, then walked away without saying anything to her, ignoring her and all, she'd quit in about an hour.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 16

17  I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
Context   In 2