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“My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.”

Giving Writing Force Hours Sleep Pleasure Trifles Unproductive

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.”

Writing I Can Two Voice Can Do Hours Sleep Lists Magazines Groceries I Can Do It Grocery Lists

Author:Ann Patchett

“I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.”

Needs Facts Hours Sleep Five Bases Regard Blessed Sunday Saturday Work Day Saturday And Sunday

Author:David Rubenstein

“I usually sleep just a few hours a night.”

Night Hours Sleep

Author:Jackson Rathbone

“I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.”

Night Hours Sleep Six

Author:James Franco

“Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.”

Needs Night Hours Sleep Seven Eight Productive Lack Of Sleep

Author:Sandra Lee

“Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.”

Night Hours Sleep

Author:Andy Murray

“It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.”

Thinking Feels I Can Night Next Can Do Hours Sleep Five Tough Wake Up Wasting Time Going To Sleep

Author:Dave Grohl

“It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.”

Firsts Wells Shows Jobs Hours Sleep College I Realized

Author:Dick Cavett

“If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.”

Ifs Dream Hours Sleep Half Gun Horrible Firing Helicopters

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.”

People Needs Night Guy Stuff Hours Sleep Morning Minutes Office Europe Online Afternoon Midnight Naps Need Sleep Afternoon Naps

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.”

Ifs Hours Sleep Bed Ten Nine Get Up

Author:Philip Johnson

“As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.”

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Author:Ester Dean

“Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.”

Hours Sleep Bears Wine Presses Seeking Pursue Companion Endeavor Leisure Remorse Gloomy Wanderers Fugitive Leisure Time

Author:Horace

“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.”

People Ifs Knows Next Hours Sleep Sun Gone Return Activity Losing Command Unconscious Bizarre Going To Sleep Resumes

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?”

Ifs Kind Littles Stills Done Light Artist Hours Sleep Fool Bed Office Drawing Dawn Iphone Office Hours

Author:David Hockney

“It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!”

Way Age Lasts Night Certain Hours Sleep Eight Fantastic Spokes Last Night

Author:Johnny Depp

“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

World Long Soul Ends Moments Age Nations Hours Sleep Powerful Steps India Awake Strokes Midnight Utterance India Independence Day Indian Independence Day

Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949

Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949

“A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom”

World Change Hours Sleep Destiny India Strokes Midnight

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”

Men Hours Sleep Fool Six Seven Eight Good Sleep Good Night Sleep Sleeping At Night

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.”

Years Hours Sleep Week Eight

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.”

Ifs Men May Night Hours Sleep Knowing Return Drug Cunning Chamber Merciful Chasms Haggard Nevermore Merciful God

Book:H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection

Source: H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection

“I'm lucky, I guess. I only really need five or so hours of sleep.”

Needs Hours Sleep Five Lucky

Author:Cliff Sloan

“I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.”

Should Two Dream Reading Found Hours Sleep Morning Novel Sitting Spending Ridiculous Desks Email

Author:Brit Marling

“A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.”

Two Hours Sleep Liberty Path Mountain Creatures Equal Add Saint Climbing Rogues Fraternity Mountain Climbing Tiredness

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.”

Dream Body Earth Hours Sleep Substance Encounters Muscles Allowing Waking Gravity Stirring Neurons Abram

Author:David Abram

“I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.”

People Ifs Wanted Life Is Hours Sleep Missing Drink Drug Seven Boring Smoke Pleasant Missing It

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Night Hours Sleep Animal Party Successful Personality Pure Clean Eight Focused Honestly Organised Party Animal

Author:Jessie J

“I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!”

Needs Feelings Running Hours Sleep Busy Love Feeling

Author:Lauren Conrad

“The days, the nights, flow one by one above us. The hours go silently over our lifted faces. We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea. Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together. We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.”

Together Faces Night Hours Sleep Walks Laughing Sun Sea Wall Flow Pursue Dreamer

Book:The House of Dust: A Symphony

Source: The House of Dust: A Symphony

“Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.”

People Way Want Different Sometimes Easy Hours Sleep Tough Chords Vocal

Author:Mariah Carey

“I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.”

Two Hours Sleep Baby Wake Up

Author:Colin Powell

“Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.”

Law Hours Prayer Sleep Study Four Six Graves In-laws

Author:Edward Coke

“The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but a sign of the willingness of mostly married men to lose sleep to support the family as their wife loses sleep to feed the child. A willingness to do the uncomfortable shifts is one reason married men earn more than twice what never-married men earn. Men's contribution, made at night, need not be lost in the dark.”

Men Needs Children Made Reason Night Lost Hours Loses Dark Sleep Support Wife Married Discrimination Uncomfortable Contribution Willingness Desirable Married Man

Author:Warren Farrell

“It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.”

Want Two Country Home Might Night Speak Bits Hours Chance My Own Sleep Setting Settings Get Back Going To Sleep Back Home Mississippi Free Country

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!”

Humans Hours Sleep Silence Apocalypse

Author:George Sterling

“One night I couldn't sleep. It was like 2:00 in the morning. I was thinking, 'What can I do?' I'm watching TV. I'm like, 'Let me do something else.' I'm not going to fall asleep for a few hours. What are my hobbies? There was the masturbation option. I skipped that because just knowing my kids are down the hall I felt psychotic. So, I went with watching more TV. I couldn't come up with anything. I was going, 'God, read a book.' Then I was like this, 'Where do I keep the books?' I've got nothing to do but watch TV.”

Thinking Book Kids Night Fall Felt Hours Sleep Watches Morning Knowing Tvs Let Me Come Up Halls Hobbies One Night Masturbation Psychotic Watching Tv

Author:Adam Sandler

“Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn't have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.”

Knows Giving Today Night Hours Sleep Creativity Going To Sleep

Book:The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.”

Left Hours Sleep Silence Doors Dog Fields Listening Stones Safety Stealing Gray Shade Bites Reign Crops Dwelling Steers Sabbath Laborers Paws Dens Juicy Clovers

Author:William C. Bryant

“I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.”

World Time Lost Hours Sleep Sun Blue Distance Smell Finite Baths Noon Haze

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.”

Enough Interest Hours Sleep Four Twenties Spread Can't Sleep Interest In Life

Author:Madame de Stael

“I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.”

Ifs States Desire Turns Opportunity Hours Sleep Answers Doubt Fate Return Mortals Conquer Vain Gates Woe Foe Follow Me Feasting Opportunity Knocking

Author:John James Ingalls

“You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.”

Knows Trying Done Enough Stuff Hours Sleep Simple Havens Genius Get Better Endeavor Simple Things Brainless

Author:Randy Newman

“I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.”

Ifs Mean Littles Bits Hours Sleep Progress Little Bit Grind Every Second Can't Sleep

Author:Ace Hood

“In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train - I do about three hours in the gym...”

Home Running Three Hours Sleep Morning Minutes Wake Up Train Gym Back Home

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.”

Thinking Feelings Age Hours Sleep Common Music Is Contrary Common Sense Waking Solace

Author:Mark Heard

“Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.”

Hours Sleep Five Never Sleep

Author:Vivien Leigh

“I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.”

Thinking Two Ideas Night Hours Sleep Worry Baby No Sleep Great Night

Author:Billy Crystal

“Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.”

Two Enough Facts Hours Sleep Cry Keys Stress Cheese Naps Stress Relieving

Author:Keri Russell