Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony de Mello

We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

Amy Hempel

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

Allison Janney

I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and I beat myself up until I get to try it the next night and "I'll get it better tonight." So I'm hard on myself. I think I'm not alone in that regard with acting.

Allison Janney

I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It's exciting. I love it so much.

Anne Sexton

O starry night, This is how I want to die

Anne Sexton

I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

Anne Rice

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

Anne Rice

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

Anne Rice

The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

Anne Rice

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

Anne Rice

It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.

Anita Loos

with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor.Grasp it; sense it - tremulous and tender.Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light - and listen to the music of the night !

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

Ambrose Bierce

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

Ambrose Bierce

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

Alicia Keys

I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something flying in the sky, and it's at some random time of night that doesn't make sense, and it's not the shape of a plane? I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.

Alice Oswald

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

Alice Hoffman

You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.

Alice Hoffman

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

Alice Cooper

You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it.And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires, because anybody only saw us at night.

Anne McCaffrey

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

Amanda Burton

I have sleepless nights before press days.

Amanda Bynes

I want to be known for the work I've done, as opposed to where I go on Saturday nights...

Alphonse de Lamartine

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.

Aeschylus

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Alexander McCall Smith

At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.

Alexander Pope

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

Alexander Pope

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

Alex Winter

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

Debby Ryan

I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.

E. M. Forster

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

Drake Bell

The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.