I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of…

“I'd been awake for thirty-six hours and driving for ten. Restless weeks, sleepless nights, and the decision stole into me like a thief. I…

— John Hart

“LAVINIA: Oh Edward! The point is, that since I've been away I see that I've taken you much too seriously. And now I can…

— T. S. Eliot

“The problem (as I’d learned, repeatedly) was that thirty-six hours in, with your body in full revolt, and the remainder of your un-opiated life…

— Donna Tartt

“I'd been awake for thirty-two hours, but I still ordered a burger and a vodka, 'cause sometimes you can't call it a day until…

— Anna Kendrick

“You’re almost home.”                         The front doors of the Richmond International Airport part long before Cole and Ruby approach…

— Anonymous

“By dawn on Sunday he had been awake for over thirty hours, tracking a crisis of ever-expanding but indeterminate scope. A large body of…

— Charles Stross

“If God expected you to get thirty-six hours’ worth of work done in a day, He would have given you thirty-six hours to do…

— Sarah Mackenzie

“almost three million Americans are caring for an adult with cancer, which takes an average of thirty-three hours a week.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Suppose that we allot ourselves a generous eight hours a day for sleep (and few need more than that), three hours for meals and…

— J Oswald Sanders

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

— Mark Twain

“To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours.”

— Gene Kim

I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also have been…

— Alton Tobey

“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too…

— Audie Murphy

“Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.”

— Charlie Higson

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley