Night Quotes

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"

"This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning"

Patty Duke, Actress

"Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below"

Rebecca H. Davis

"You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you"

James Caan, Actor

"I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that"

Portia de Rossi, Actress

"After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid"

Robyn Hitchcock, Musician

"The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book"

Paul Kane, Writer

"Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land"

Kit Williams, Author

"Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast"

George William Russell, Writer

"Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory"

Jenifer Lewis, Actress

"We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans"

Illeana Douglas, Actress

"I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny"

Illeana Douglas, Actress

"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again"

Joel Madden, Musician

"The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night"

Bob Dole, Politician

"I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light"

Chris Cornell, Musician

"That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us"

Benny Goodman, Musician

"I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own"

Lauren Ambrose, Actress

"It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with"

Joe Lando, Actor

"You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day"

Edward Carpenter, Activist

"I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak"

Godfried Danneels, Clergyman

"The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'"

George Clooney, Actor

"Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

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