Night Quotes

"On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses"

William Bligh, Soldier

"Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance"

Paul Martin, Politician

"I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day"

Bernard Hinault, Athlete

"No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars"

Llewelyn Powys, Writer

"The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night"

Evan Dando, Musician

"And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

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

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"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

"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night"

Woody Allen, Director

"Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

"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

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

"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

"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

"By night an atheist half believes in a God"

Edward Young, Poet

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge"

Lord Byron, Poet

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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

"I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"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 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

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

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"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

"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest"

Hernando Cortez, Explorer

"When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent"

George Carlin, Comedian

"The nearer the dawn the darker the night"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"

Anne Baxter, Actress

"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair"

Ovid, Poet

"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

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

Will Rogers, Actor

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf"

George Orwell, Author

"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night"

George Eliot, Author

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