Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Q

Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

Norman Mailer

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

Norman Mailer

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

Norman Mailer

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

Norman Mailer

We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

Orville Redenbacher

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

Oscar de la Renta

Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Octavio Paz

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality. Yes, the excess of reality had become an unreality, but that unreality had turned suddenly into a balcony from which I peered into—what? Into that which is beyond and still has no name…

Norman Vincent Peale

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

Emilie Autumn

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

Emile M. Cioran

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

Emile M. Cioran

Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

Emile M. Cioran

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Emile M. Cioran

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

Emily Giffin

It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.

Emily Dickinson

You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

Henry Reed

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

Helen Mirren

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

Heinrich Heine

The night comes stealing o'er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.

Heinrich Heine

Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull...

Heinrich Heine

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Hidetoshi Nakata

We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals.

Heraclitus

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

Heraclitus

We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.

Heraclitus

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

Henry Ward Beecher

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Henry Ward Beecher

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

Helen Zille

For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.