Night Quotes

"I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way"

Peter Tork, Musician

"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now"

Richard Reeves, Writer

"You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible"

Cobi Jones, Athlete

"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night"

Marguerite Young, Author

"I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

"I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country"

Edwin M. Stanton, Lawyer

"The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"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, Scientist

"Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired"

Zane Grey, Author

"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful"

Mark Rydell, Director

"In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold"

John Leonard, Poet

"Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not"

Paul Auster, Author

"I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be"

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Actress

"We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow"

Leo Szilard, Scientist

"I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night"

John Mayer, Musician

"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die"

Thomas Cole, Artist

"One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned"

Tim Curry, Actor

"We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"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, Dancer

"I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling"

Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist

"I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great"

Todd English, Celebrity

"I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody"

Bill Haley, Musician

"I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

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