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Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
— Marilyn Monroe
His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.
— Margaret Atwood
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wilberforce was greatly renowned for his singing voice and came to be known as the "Nightingale of Commons"—probably not only for the remarkable quality of his voice but for the hours at which he sang.
— Eric Metaxas
About three-fourths of the whole business was for effect and therefore harmless, ended at the door of the cafe, soon enough for the five-o'clock train back to Yale or Princeton; about one-fourth continued on into the dimmer hours and gathered strange dust from strange places.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
All with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
— Anonymous
But Europe at that time was thrilled with joy,France standing on the top of golden hours,And human nature seeming born again.
— William Wordsworth
The service lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim, when he saw us descending, ' ''What, done already?'' 'On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners!
— Emily Bronte
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
— Robert Frost