But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.

-Raine, Craig Anthony
  'A Martian Sends a Postcard Home'.

Whatever may have been my enthusiasm or impatience to be up and doing on the night before, the hour for getting up always finds me with no other ambition in the world than to be permitted to lie where I am and sleep, sleep, sleep.Not soTilman.Ihave never met anyonewith such a complete disregard for the sublime comforts of the early morning bed. However monstrously early we might decide, thenight before, toget up, hewas about at least half an hour before the time. He was generally very good about it, and used to sit placidly smoking his pipe over the fire.

-Shipton, Eric Earle
  On climbing with H W (Bill) Tilman. Nanda Devi.