Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

Nelson Mandela

I have spent more than 20 years in prison, then on one night I decided to surrender by signing all the terms and conditions of government. But suddenly I thought about Imam Hussain (as) and Karbala movement and Imam Hussain (as) gave me strength to stand for right of freedom and liberation and I did.

Nelly Furtado

I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.

Nelson Algren

The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.

Neko Case

What drug will keep night from coming?

Rachel Perry

I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

Rachel Nichols

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

Mike Huckabee

Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.

Mike Myers

I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.

John Ashbery

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?

Joe Dumars

We can talk about the value of sportsmanship on one hand, and on the other hand, the leading shots, highlights ... you see every night are the outrageous and unsportsmanlike, so I think there is a double standard here. On the one hand, we complain about it, on the other hand it's the first thing you see every night.

Jodi Picoult

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Jodi Picoult

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

Jodi Picoult

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

Ken Dodd

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

Kathy Griffin

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

Kathy Griffin

I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

Kazuo Ishiguro

And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.

Kristen Stewart

After my final Breaking Dawn scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I've ever felt in my life.

Konrad Zuse

The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

Olivia Munn

Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

Olivia Wilde

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

Olivia Wilde

I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

Oliver Goldsmith

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

Margaret Atwood

What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

Margaret Atwood

We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

Kid Rock

Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.

Kid Rock

One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

Kevin Myers

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

Katie Cassidy

My style during the day is very casual - boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I'm not afraid to push the envelope.

Margaret Thatcher

Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

Margaret Cho

This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.