Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Shan

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

Darren Shan

Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

Darren Shan

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

Darren Shan

Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?

Darren Shan

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

David Sedaris

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

David Mitchell

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

Dave Barry

If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.

Dave Barry

The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.

David Pogue

Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels but $14 a night at expensive ones.

David Quammen

You can hike into the Yellowstone backcountry. You can camp in the Yellowstone backcountry. You can take food into the Yellowstone backcountry, and you're surrounded by grizzly bears. And it's - it's a very, very thrilling, peculiar situation. Every sound that you hear in the night, you wonder is this a grizzly bear coming to tear into my tent?

C. Wright Mills

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

Byron Katie

There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.

Buddy Rich

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

Buddy Hackett

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

Cesare Pavese

How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?

Catherine Deneuve

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

Camille Claudel

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

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 Paglia

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Cal Thomas

If the pro abortionists were not in control of the press, I am convinced that not only would the debate on abortion be over by now (have we really even had a national debate?), but the Pro-Life side would be victorious because we would have seen the pictures every night on television of what is taking place behind the doors of the abortion clinics and hospitals.

Caitlin Moran

I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

C. J. Cherryh

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

Bryan Batt

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

Chris Abani

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

Chris Abani

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

Chick Corea

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Chief Seattle

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

Chetan Bhagat

...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

Charles Lamb

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

Chanakya

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

Charlaine Harris

For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.