Night Quotes

"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

"I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life"

Jean Paul, Author

"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

"I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Night hath a thousand eyes"

John Lyly, Writer

"For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day"

James Thomson, Musician

"A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night"

Chanakya, Politician

"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder"

Al Gore, Vice President

"I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads"

Helena Christensen, Model

"Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne"

Barry Cornwall, Poet

"She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King"

Cynthia Weil, Musician

"And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons"

Nia Long, Actress

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox"

Tim Vine, Comedian

"I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently"

Nia Long, Actress

"Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before"

Ron Wood, Musician

"When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night"

Slash, Musician

"The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges"

John Sayles, Director

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