Night Quotes: Embracing the Beauty of Darkness (Page 3)

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

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

"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"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

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

Hernando Cortez, Explorer

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

Ovid, Poet

"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

"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

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

Will Rogers, Actor

"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"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

"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

"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

"Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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

George Orwell, Author

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

Anne Baxter, Actress

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"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

"Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed"

Tina Turner, Musician

"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"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

"One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night"

Dave Barry, Author

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