Night Quotes at FixQuotes

"I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"By night an atheist half believes in a God"

Edward Young, Poet

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"Night is the mother of counsels"

George Herbert, Poet

"In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about"

Britney Spears, Musician

"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time"

Will Rogers, Actor

"I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night"

Marilyn vos Savant, Writer

"It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation"

Michael York, Actor

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