Night Quotes

"Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it"

"You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night"

Betty Grable, Actress

"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"

James Thurber, Comedian

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

"Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about"

Britney Spears, Musician

"I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night"

Herbert Hoover, President

"You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream"

Grover Cleveland, President

"The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"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

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish"

Larry David, Actor

"When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but"

Lou Reed, Musician

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

Tina Turner, Musician

"There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat"

Lou Reed, Musician

"Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful"

Lou Reed, Musician

"Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

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