Night Quotes

"No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night"

"I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night"

"Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night"

"There's no night without stars"

"Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me"

Taye Diggs, Actor

"I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started"

Preston Sturges, Writer

"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face"

Stephen Hopkins

"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise"

Clifford Odets, Playwright

"Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man"

Wes Montgomery, Musician

"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night"

Marie Corelli, Novelist

"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection"

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

"It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing"

Stockard Channing, Actress

"The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business"

Ron Moody, Actor

"Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating"

Ron Fairly, Athlete

"My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education"

Renee Fleming, Musician

"Beware thoughts that come in the night"

William Least Heat-Moon, Writer

"Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night"

Joyce Grenfell, Actress

"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army"

Richard Harding Davis, Journalist

"And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now"

Peter Krause, Actor

"Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested"

Elizabeth Goudge, Writer

"There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea"

Gary Snyder, Poet

"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother"

Barry Humphries, Entertainer

"She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it"

Louise Fletcher, Actress

"I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament"

Jerry Hall, Model

"The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping"

Benjamin Britten, Composer

"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame"

Wayne Kramer

"I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano"

Teena Marie, Musician

"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over"

Philip Guston, Artist

"I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night"

Rosemary Clooney, Musician

"You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house"

Paul Thomas Anderson, Director

"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station"

Angie Martinez, Musician

"I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president"

Jack Valenti, Businessman

"I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling"

Rob Corddry, Comedian

"Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done"

Lindsey Buckingham, Musician

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