Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kunal Nayyar

No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.

Khaled Hosseini

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

Khaled Hosseini

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

Khalil Gibran

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

Khalil Gibran

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

Khalil Gibran

One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.

Kevin Ashton

There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

Kesha

In the limelight I play it off fine, but I can't handle it when I turn off my night-light.

Kesha

My makeup is usually left over from the night before.

Jonathan Raban

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.

Jonathan Raban

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

Jonathan Safran Foer

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

Narendra Modi

I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.

Luke Bryan

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

Luke Bryan

When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.

Luke Bryan

You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

Luke Bryan

Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.

Luke Bryan

Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth.

Ludacris

Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

Louise Penny

The night is a strawberry.

Loretta Lynn

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

Lord Byron

Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

M. F. K. Fisher

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

Lord Chesterfield

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Malcolm de Chazal

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Maimonides

At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

Gail Carson Levine

Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me.

Gail Carriger

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.

Freya Stark

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.