Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

Fred Armisen

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

Fred Armisen

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

Fred Armisen

I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.

Fred Armisen

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

Francoise Sagan

At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

Frank Rizzo

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms.

George Jean Nathan

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

George Herbert

He that contemplates hath a day without night.

George Herbert

A blustering night, a faire day. [A blustering night, a fair day.]

Chris Hardwick

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

Christian Siriano

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne.

Chris Pine

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

Chris Hoy

Even when you feel as though everything is 100% it can still go wrong on the night (like in Melbourne!) so you never know for sure that you're going to do the performance you expect.

Chris Kattan

With the Roxbury guys (on 'Saturday Night Live'), I think the breaking point was when Stallone came on and wanted to do the sketch just because. And we're, like, 'Well, now we've got to create a story, so, what, are we bopping our heads with Rocky? What are we doing?'

Chris Jericho

Welcome to RAW is Jericho! And I was just listening to your list of problems and grievances that you have with all my Jerichoholics, and I have a solution - and that solution is to SHUT THE HELL UP. But finally, Al Snow, tomorrow people WILL be acknowledging you - they WILL be talking about the greatest moment of '99 - they'll be talking about the night that Al Snow was brutally beaten by the Ayatollah of Rock n Rolla.

Chris Hayes

Trump University is just one of the many lines of attack that were opened up last night, giving a preview of what`s to come in the general if [Donald] Trump is indeed the Republican nominee.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

George Shearing

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

George Steiner

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

George Orwell

People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

George R. R. Martin

One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

George R. R. Martin

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

George R. R. Martin

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

George R. R. Martin

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

George R. R. Martin

Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

George Carlin

I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.

George Carlin

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.