Night Quotes
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.
Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.
Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.
At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.
I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.
What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.
No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court." "Well, I'm not, he dumped me." "You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court." "Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.
It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?
Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.
Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.
And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy.
Sometimes, when you get a girl pregnant, you blame the condom. His condom broke that night.
A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.
Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?
I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174
I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was… you.
We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.
I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."
Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.
My last thought in the night end with you and my morning smile is caused by your thought. I wonder if ever life would be so special without your love.
I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.
The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.
We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly.
Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.
We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!). -Fang's Blog
Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
I don't care who wins, I'll fight either one of them. As a matter of fact, I'll fight them both on the same night if they want.
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.
I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.