Night Quotes

"After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.'"

Aziz Ansari, Comedian

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!"

Burt Ward, Actor

"When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever"

Arthur Hiller, Director

"With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet"

Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor

"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope"

Bern Williams

"If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance"

Bern Williams

"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after"

Tallulah Bankhead, Actress

"On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark"

Muhammad Ali, Athlete

"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night"

Etta James, Musician

"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"

Christa McAuliffe, Astronaut

"The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill"

Denis Thatcher, Businessman

"It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning"

John Walters, Musician

"I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice"

Linda Vester, Entertainer

"We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds"

Meriwether Lewis, Explorer

"The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island"

Meriwether Lewis, Explorer

"Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost"

Meriwether Lewis, Explorer

"A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort"

Meriwether Lewis, Explorer

"It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman"

Tallulah Bankhead, Actress

"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night"

Steve Nash, Athlete

"25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that"

Mark Messier, Athlete

"What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?"

William Law, Clergyman

"Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long"

Carlo Collodi, Writer

"I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night"

Norman Wisdom, Comedian

"Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it"

Richard Lester, Director

"Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film"

Richard Lester, Director

"A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo"

Richard Pryor, Actor

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