Quotes about night
night looks ears
I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That’s what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night. Then he’d whispered. “And you’re not even wearing Spanx. Meg Cabot
night leaving terror
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. Maya Angelou
night able lasts
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. Max Beerbohm
nightmare poor terror
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists. Max Beerbohm
night yesterday medicine
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. Matthew Prior
night ghouls mind
Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans. Marina Warner
night class cities
Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities. Marina Warner
night psychology wicked
Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights. Marina Warner
night law magic
For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription. Marina Warner
night feels-just years
A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience. Marilyn vos Savant
night house quiet
I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet. Mary Engelbreit
night air wind
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. Patricia Cornwell
night drawing affinity
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. Patricia Highsmith
night guitar icons
1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar. Pat Metheny
night rocks oxygen
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky. Pablo Neruda
night sea issues
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak with eloquence and seduction; my words, more than from me, issue from the warm nights, from the many solitary nights on the Red Sea, and when the tiny dancer puts her arm around my neck, I understand that she understands. Magnificent language! Pablo Neruda
night light darkness
I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness. Pablo Neruda
night phones dating
Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?" P. J. O'Rourke
night drunk half
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night, Philip Larkin
night thinking kind
You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well. Paul Weller
night odds giving
It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night." "How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame. Lee Child
night fever generations
'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me. Laurieann Gibson
night shadow
Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in. Philip James Bailey
night lamps study
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. Philip James Bailey
night tears gone
Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. Philip James Bailey
night forbidden-love silence
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers. Philip James Bailey
night gold pay
Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold. Peter Diamandis
night water fishes
The great fish moved silently through the night water. Peter Benchley
night long people
I see is that there are many people who destroy their marriages because of one-night stands with someone else. And as the French say, "C'est ne pas grave." It's not something easy to swallow, but at the same time, it does not justify you to end a long-lasting relationship because something happened. Paulo Coelho
night yesterday people
..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow. Paulo Coelho
night men phones
If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily. Paulo Coelho
night waiting everyday
Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth. Paulo Coelho
night talking years
They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice. Paulo Coelho