Night Quotes

"I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times"

David Ginola, Athlete

"I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different"

Austin Peck, Actor

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters"

John Bonham, Musician

"I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know"

Bob Odenkirk, Actor

"It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination"

David Heyman, Producer

"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us"

Pablo Neruda, Writer

"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"

James Caan, Actor

"Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence"

Marina Oswald, Celebrity

"We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world"

Roger Waters, Musician

"Night is the mother of thoughts"

John Florio, Writer

"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 have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe"

Brian Greene, Physicist

"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

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

Woody Allen, Director

"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

"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

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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