Good Night famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England
-- A. E. Housman -
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
-- A. J. McLean -
If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
-- Amy Hempel -
Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life.
-- Amy Poehler -
Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime, Bid me "Good-morning."
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.
-- Anne Bronte -
This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book. ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.
-- Art Buchwald -
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.
-- Artie Lange -
A rap pro, do a show, good to go, also Cameo afro, Virgo, domino, I go Rambo, Gigolo, Romeo, Friday night spend money on a ho...tel, To get a good night's sleep, I'm keeping in step. Now do I come off? Yep.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
-- Bill Nighy -
It could still be a good night if you play your cards right.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.
-- Chanel Iman -
This is me, Clive Anderson, saying good night. Good night.
-- Clive Anderson -
If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.
-- Daniel Handler -
The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!
-- Dorothy Wordsworth -
Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.
-- Douglas Fairbanks -
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-- Drew Barrymore -
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-- Dylan Thomas -
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
-- E. W. Howe -
Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
-- Edmund Waller -
When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
-- Emily Dickinson -
Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.
-- Enya -
I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.
-- Eric Bristow -
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.
-- Frank Borman -
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.
-- George W. Bush -
Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
-- Grace Jones -
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
-- Harold Wilson -
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
-- Harry Dean Stanton -
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.
-- J. B. Priestley -
When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isn’t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good night’s sleep, the next day I’m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational.
-- James M. Cain -
And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.
-- Jane Austen -
I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
I think the answer is we all need a little help, and the coffee's a little help with everything — social, energy, don't know what to do next, don't know how to start my day, don't know how to get through this afternoon, don't know how to stay alert. We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
I am a very organized person. I get up at 6:15 a.m., the kids get up at 6:45 a.m., and so I get up and get it in. I’m addicted to the high function. To me it’s a work thing -- if you meditate, you can get so much work done. I always say to people you know how about three nights a year you get a good night sleep? You can have it every day with meditation.
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep."
-- Jessica Pare -
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.
-- Joanna Baillie -
I prioritize in life. I like to work, I do TV shows, I do a lot of Iron Man training. I enjoy kicking back on a good night and drinking wine until I go to bed, and having fun with my friends. You just have to make time for it and keep it balanced.
-- Joe Bastianich -
Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.
-- Johanna Spyri -
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
-- John Bytheway -
A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.
-- John Donne -
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
-- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.
-- Judith Guest -
The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.
-- Judith Martin -
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
-- Judy Garland -
As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.
-- Keith Olbermann -
My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.
-- Kirsty Gallacher -
Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down.
-- Kris Carr -
The dude in red's back at the pole, Up North where everything is cold. But if he were right here tonight, He'd say 'Merry Christmas! And to all, a good night!'
-- Kurtis Blow -
They got all the size over there, and the teams are really good, so, I think night after night you're just going to have to be ready to lace them up and be ready to play. The teams out there are really good.
-- Latrell Sprewell -
A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
-- Laurence Sterne -
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
-- Lewis Carroll -
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
-- Liam Gallagher -
When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.
-- Libba Bray -
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.
-- Margaret George -
Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!
-- Marie Helvin -
My idea of a good night out is staying in.
-- Martin Freeman -
The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.
-- Mary McCarthy -
When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
-- Matthew Bourne -
After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.'
-- Maxine -
And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.
-- Meg Cabot -
I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.
-- Meg Cabot -
I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.
-- Mika Brzezinski -
I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
-- Mike Wallace -
We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when, But long distance love, never thought it would end. The feelings never changed until the call came... You were engaged, I was in pain. It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right. So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.'
-- MURS -
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from Apollo 11.
-- Neil Armstrong -
While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.
-- Nikki Gemmell -
The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.
-- Orlando Aloysius Battista -
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
-- Orson Scott Card -
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
-- Oscar Wilde -
An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.
-- Padma Lakshmi -
With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman -
Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.
-- Pierre-Jean de Beranger -
Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.
-- Pope Francis -
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
-- Ray Bradbury -
Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'
-- Rebecca Romijn -
T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.
-- Rebecca Romijn -
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
-- Robert Adams -
There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light.
-- Robert R. McCammon -
She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.
-- Ruth Ozeki -
You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
-- Slash -
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night. That's when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn't mind a bit.
-- Stephen Chbosky -
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.
-- Sue Monk Kidd -
B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.
-- Sylvia Day -
You will not be able to enjoy a good night's sleep unless you've worked hard during the day
-- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
