Midnight famous quotes
03-24-2025
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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
-- A. E. Housman -
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
-- Adrienne Rich -
But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.
-- Alan Seeger -
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
-- Alexander Pope -
It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.
-- Angela Merkel -
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
-- Barbara Hepworth -
It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
-- Ben Affleck -
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
-- Bo Gritz -
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.
-- Brian Selznick -
And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
-- C. S. Lewis -
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
-- Casey Stengel -
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
-- Casey Stengel -
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
-- Christian Bauman -
Remember, second chances don't expire until midnight.
-- Claire Morgan -
The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes...
-- Clemence Housman -
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
-- Diane Setterfield -
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock.
-- Dieter Rams -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.
-- Franz Kafka -
The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.
-- Frederick Forsyth -
It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
-- Greta Garbo -
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.
-- Izumi Shikibu -
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
-- J. Cole -
Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age
-- Jackson Browne -
My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.
-- Jeffrey Bernard -
Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?
-- Jennifer Crusie -
I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
-- Jerry Falwell -
What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.
-- Joe Pantoliano -
So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours.
-- John Keats -
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
-- John Milton -
You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
-- John Zorn -
And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew.
-- Kami Garcia -
..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.
-- Karen Chance -
Even if you start your laundry before 8 AM on Saturday, you will not finish folding it until after midnight on Sunday.
-- Karl Lehenbauer -
I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.
-- Katherine Heigl -
The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics!
-- Keith Thibodeaux -
I must have been Cinderella. It was nice...I was so happy...I guess it's already midnight.
-- Kim Su-mi -
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
-- Laurie Anderson -
What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.
-- Lee Child -
Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.
-- Lefty Gomez -
Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
-- Leontyne Price -
Life is simple, it's either cherry red or midnight blue.
-- Lou Gramm -
I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.
-- Macy Gray -
Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
-- Mercedes McCambridge -
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.
-- Meshell Ndegeocello -
Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.
-- Parley P. Pratt -
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
-- Patrick Ness -
...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
-- Peter Guber -
He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.
-- R.L. LaFevers -
Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.
-- Robert Cray -
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
-- Robert E. Howard -
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
-- Robert McKee -
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.
-- Rupert Holmes -
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
-- Sappho -
I can tweet before going to bed at midnight or 1 and know that they're up and at 'em, and they're going to have to respond.
-- Sarah Palin -
Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.
-- Scott Westerfeld -
I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.
-- Sean Paul -
Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight
-- Sister Souljah -
it is midnight no magical bewitching hour for me
-- Sonia Sanchez -
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?
-- Stephenie Meyer -
The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.
-- Summer Sanders -
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.
-- Thomas Gray -
Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time.
-- Chauncey Billups -
One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. …We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.
-- Christine O'Donnell -
I have killed two people since midnight. I haven't slept in over 24 hours. So maybe you should be a little more afraid of me than you are now.
-- Jack Bauer -
I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.
-- Kevin Rowland -
I don't like the midnight closing on weekends. It's one thing to tell people they have to drive to Jiffy Lube Live in the outer suburbs.
-- Robert James Thomson -
I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.
-- Christian McKay
