Night Quotes

"One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration"

"The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves"

George Lopez, Comedian

"The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"I do Skid Row every night"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth"

Len G. Murray, Lawyer

"I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night"

William Kidd, Explorer

"I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground"

Rick Danko, Musician

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ"

William Gurnall, Author

"But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night"

Rick Danko, Musician

"I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off"

Robin Trower, Musician

"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place"

William Bell

"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool"

Christina Ricci, Actress

"There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night"

John Lithgow, Actor

"His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum"

Kingsley Amis, Novelist

"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!"

George Washington Cable, Novelist

"Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

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