Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maynard Ferguson

I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.

Maya Angelou

The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

Any organization that can pull off what they pulled off on September 11, you think about the organization and the planning and the resources that went into that, clearly, they have some organizational capabilities that aren't going to go away over night

Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young

Our shots just weren't falling. We had an off night.

People are used to not paying for things on TV. They're used to watching Saturday Night Live for free.

A filmmaker's worst nightmare is screening his film and there's no one in the theater to see it.

Deborah Kerr

Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?

They stepped up and were really aggressive. That's what I want to see night in and night out from them.

John Hoffman

They say 'I had table 13 on this night at this time,' and they've sat there from the time it opened,

A lot of First Nights suffered. It was a very tough time for everyone.

Frank Rich

always on tap, night and day, weekdays and weekends, to laugh, to applaud, to love.

They made plays and we didn't. I'm disappointed with the way that we executed. We stopped ourselves all night. That's what's frustrating. It's just disappointing.

They got 19 the first night and 3 the second night.

Buddy Holly

This is one night that can never be repeated again, ... You'll never see all these people, all these stars on the same stage. This is phenomenal.

It's all about who shows up that night and plays ball.

For $100,000 he'd better watch that show every night.

There was no power, it was dark, so we treated it like a night search, with flashlights,

There were a lot of tense nights when he was on the loose.

You spend a night shift every night for weeks, you get to know someone.

Your nightmare is over. Your 10-year nightmare is over.

You're going to have nights when you don't play as well. We just have to not fold.

This is a worst nightmare come true for down-winders.

Jan Egeland

This is not enough. We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare ever. We thought the tsunami was the worst we could get. This is worse.

Ronald Graham

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

The night has always been my friend. When I go out I feel good, then I always score goals.

In my private life I do what I like. The night is my friend. If I don't go out, I don't score.

Rumi

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Rosalind Russell

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

Ron Silver

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

Sufjan Stevens

Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.

Sting

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Stewart Brand

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.