Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ed Sheeran

I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

Jandy Nelson

And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Jan Brett

I just love to draw. It's very intense for me. The day will just go by like the snap of a finger. A lot of times I'll draw or paint late into the night. When I am really concentrating, I kind of lose track of what I am doing.

James Wolfensohn

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.

James Woods

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

James Wolcott

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Jason Aldean

For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.

Jason Aldean

You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.

Janis Joplin

Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?

Jane Siberry

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

Jane Wagner

Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.

Charles Spurgeon

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have danced all night!

Alan Clark

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

Al Jourgensen

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

Al Hirschfeld

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

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.