Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

Grimes

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

Graham Greene

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

Golda Meir

I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.

Giuliana Rancic

I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day.

Harper Lee

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

Harper Lee

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

Halle Berry

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

Halle Berry

I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

Iggy Azalea

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

Ian Mckellen

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

Ian Bremmer

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question.

Peter Cosgrove

He's not a 40-minute a night guy, no one is at that level. But he has done that on occasion.

Hugh Jackman

'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

Horatio Nelson

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

Horace Mann

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

If I spend at least a night in a U.S. jail, there will be problems with state secrets,

Rick Carlisle

If he's not able to play on the second night, then we just won't play him.

I can still see that dog. I still have nightmares about that night.

Pete Carroll

It was a championship night in all ways. These two teams battled until the finish.

There have been no breaches, ... People have been out monitoring the dikes all night long.

Jim Calhoun

Villanova doubled us all night and took us out of our offense.

Garth Brooks

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

Garth Brooks

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

Gail Simmons

Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.

Frank Stallone

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

Frank Sinatra

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Fernando Pessoa

Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.

Felicity Jones

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

Ezra Pound

'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.