Night Quotes

"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money"

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

"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi"

Beth Henley, Playwright

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

Elias Canetti, Author

"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

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

Walter Chrysler, Inventor

"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

"Good night, and good luck"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people"

Judy Garland, Actress

"Dying is a wild night and a new road"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"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

"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

"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

"I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"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

"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

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"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

"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

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

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

Larry David, Actor

"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost"

Bennett Cerf, Journalist

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"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

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