Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Bastianich

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

Joan Collins

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.

Joan Collins

And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.

Joan Collins

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

Jim Steinman

It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.

Lou Reed

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

Lou Reed

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Lou Reed

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Lou Reed

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

Lou Reed

Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of nowhere, out in Jersey. Even there, there's sometimes problems. College students like journey out there and show up at 11 o'clock at night, on my porch, looking into the door not saying anything. My wife and I are sitting there; it's really creepy.

Llewelyn Powys

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Madeleine L'Engle

Wild nights are my glory!

Lynn Woolsey

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

Lucy Lawless

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

Louisa May Alcott

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

John Gay

Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.

John Fowles

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

Lisa Kleypas

Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.

Lisa Gardner

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Lindsey Vonn

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.

Lil Wayne

You can sit right on my middle finger for the night

Leo Tolstoy

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

Leo Kottke

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

Lauren Conrad

I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed.

Lauren Conrad

The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.

Lady Gaga

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Lady Gaga

And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!

Lewis Black

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'

Lewis Black

I have no religion because I was born and raised Jewish. And on the first night of Hanukkah, my parents, when I was very young, gave me a top to play with. They called it a dreidel. I knew it was a top. And as I looked at that top, I said, 'You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.