Night famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
-- A. A. Gill -
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
-- A. E. Housman -
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
-- A. J. McLean -
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
-- A. P. Herbert -
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.
-- A. S. Byatt -
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
-- A. Scott Berg -
Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
-- A.C. Grayling -
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
-- A.L. Kennedy -
I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
-- A.M. Homes -
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
-- Aaron Hill -
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
-- Aaron Levie -
Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.
-- Abbey Lee Kershaw -
You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don’t go getting shy on me now. ‘Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.
-- Abbi Glines -
Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.
-- Abbi Glines -
Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?
-- Abbi Glines -
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
-- Abbie Cornish -
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
-- Abdallah II -
The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.
-- Abraham Coles -
Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
-- Abraham Cowley -
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
-- Abraham Cowley -
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
-- Abraham Pais -
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
-- Abu Dawood -
That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
-- Ace Frehley -
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
-- Ada Leverson -
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
-- Adam Carolla -
At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
-- Adam Garcia -
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.
-- Adam Johnson -
The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?
-- Adam Sandler -
If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Schneider and Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this Click actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.
-- Adam Sandler -
Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights
-- Adam Sandler -
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!
-- Adolf Hitler -
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
-- Adolph Rupp -
Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.
-- Adrien Broner -
Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!
-- Agatha Christie -
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.
-- Agnes de Mille -
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
-- Agnes Martin -
My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.
-- Ai Yazawa -
The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may call it jealousy, or may be anxiety and moreover, need. Even now I'm anxious at times because when I am with Ren, everything around feels like a dream. That was how Ren turned my boring life into an illusion, and that was too much for no matter how hard i tried, it seemed I could never catch him.
-- Ai Yazawa -
The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren's voice... I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at times I look back. In this ordinary life without Ren, I think my life with him was like a dream. Especially on a snowy night like this. On a night as cold as this. Someone keep this guy warm for me, please.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.
-- Aidy Boothroyd -
People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance because they think you took the easy way out, when no one would imagine the willpower it took to do what we do, walking the streets night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up.
-- Aileen Wuornos -
By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.
-- Aimee Friedman -
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
-- Aimee Mullins -
Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.
-- Aino Kallas -
Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Dreams are those that don't let you sleep at night,
-- Akhil Kumar -
My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.
-- Al Franken -
I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.
-- Al Gore -
The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.
-- Al Jourgensen -
I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.
-- Al Kaline -
I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
-- Al McGuire -
Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.
-- Al Michaels -
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
-- Al Yankovic -
Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.
-- Alan Jackson -
A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
-- Alan Jay Lerner -
It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991
-- Alan Kulwicki -
He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.
-- Alan Parry -
When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.
-- Alan Shearer -
I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.
-- Alan Sugar -
Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
-- Alber Elbaz -
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
-- Albert Camus -
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
-- Albert Camus -
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
-- Albert Camus -
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
-- Albert Camus -
In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
-- Albert Camus -
Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.
-- Albert Camus -
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
-- Albert Camus -
Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
-- Albert Camus -
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
-- Albert Goldbarth -
When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.
-- Albert Payson Terhune -
Who hath seen the Phantom Ship, Her lordly rise and lowly dip, Careering o'er the lonesome main, No port shall know her keel again... Ah, woe is in the awful sight, The sailor finds there eternal night, 'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep, And Ocean will the secret keep
-- Albert Pinkham Ryder -
I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.
-- Alberto Manguel -
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
-- Alberto Manguel -
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.
-- Alberto Tomba -
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
-- Aldous Huxley -
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
-- Aldous Huxley -
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
-- Alec Baldwin -
The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.
-- Alex Garland
