At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.

- Anne Tyler

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

- Anthony Trollope

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

- Anthony Trollope

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

- Anthony Foxx

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

- Anson Mount

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

- Andy Roddick

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

- Andy Behrman

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

- Andy Behrman

I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.

- Amish Tripathi

What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would be rounded up, taken to the airport and expelled.

- Ariel Sharon

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

- Alan King

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

- Anna Freud

I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.

- Angie Harmon

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

- Andy Murray

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

- Alan Hansen

I'm trying my hand at directing. I'm doing an independent movie that we haven't started casting yet, but it's like an edgy version of 'Lethal Weapon' and '48 Hours,' only with two women in it.

- Aisha Tyler

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

- Aaron Paul

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

- Amy Tan

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

- Ambrose Bierce