Daily Rhythm Quotes

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.

My carbs kick in at dinner, which makes no sense.

I'm like, "You could not wake up in the sixes? Does it really gotta be in the fives?" Because the 5 really feels like nighttime. I don't like the day starting at 5.

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.

I can stay up until the sun's up, no problem, but I do not like getting up in the morning.

I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.

Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

You've got the same rhythm every day just to keep you going. So once that rhythm is broken, it's kind of hard to get back with it when you got a lot of things going on.

I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.

I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.

I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.