Night Quotes

"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me"

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon"

"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play"

"I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time"

"Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity"

Henry Beston, Writer

"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though"

Tori Spelling, Actress

"This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better"

Carrie Underwood, Musician

"I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested"

David Naughton, Actor

"There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink"

Nik Kershaw, Musician

"On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night"

Pauline Frederick, Actress

"I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down"

Mark Hoppus, Musician

"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl"

Marion Berry, Politician

"For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream"

Emmitt Smith, Athlete

"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final"

William Maxwell Aitken, Businessman

"The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!"

Tony Danza, Actor

"It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act"

Todd Rundgren, Musician

"After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders"

Lord Dunsany, Novelist

"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material"

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Musician

"Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football"

Frank Gifford, Athlete

"Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air"

Patricia Cornwell, Writer

"This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps"

Frederick Law Olmsted, Architect

"When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working"

Lee Hazlewood, Musician

"If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night"

John Hunter

"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night"

Nelson Gidding, Dramatist

"The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!"

Martin Denny, Musician

"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything"

Herb Caen, Journalist

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums"

Elizabeth Perkins, Actress

"I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions"

Traci Bingham, Actress

"I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me"

James Green Somerville

"A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me"

James Darren, Actor

"Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear"

Andrei A. Gromyko, Politician

"I like to work at night"

Terry Southern, Writer

"The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above"

Paul Bowles, Composer

"Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend"

Grantland Rice, Journalist

"You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering"

Bill Kurtis, Journalist

"Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?"

Jeb Bush, Politician

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