Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

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.

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…

Michael Buckley

The night is young, and by the grace of magic, so are we.

Meriwether Lewis

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.