Night Quotes

"At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?"

Kim Deal, Musician

"If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night"

Darryl F. Zanuck, Director

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night"

Jim Mitchell, Director

"Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch"

Craig Kilborn, Entertainer

"I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out"

Eric Bristow, Celebrity

"Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh"

Georges Rouault, Artist

"I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while"

Corey Hart, Musician

"Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die"

Brian Sibley, Writer

"I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him"

Dawn Powell, Writer

"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair"

David Crane

"It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward"

Caprice Bourret, Model

"But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record"

Christine Lavin, Musician

"Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night"

Christy Romano, Actress

"We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw"

Brian Clough, Athlete

"It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same"

Carl Zeiss, Scientist

"Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night"

Ben Webster, Musician

"In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night"

Bruno Schulz, Novelist

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way"

E. L. Doctorow, Author

"Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?"

Dennis Moore, Politician

"President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up"

Craig Kilborn, Entertainer

"Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it"

Aziz Ansari, Comedian

"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around"

Charlene Tilton, Actress

"Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best"

Bobby Vinton, Musician

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