Night Quotes

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

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

"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night"

William Blake, Poet

"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white"

William Blake, Poet

"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

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

Walt Whitman, Poet

"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

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

James Thurber, Comedian

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"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

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

Herbert Hoover, President

"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

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

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

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

Britney Spears, Musician

"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 have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

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

Rodney Dangerfield, 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

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people"

Kim Novak, Actress

"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

"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

"Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki"

Duke Kahanamoku, Athlete

"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 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

"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night"

Hal Borland, Author

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