Quotes about night
night strikes worst
The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night. Haruki Murakami
night thinking light
Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.
night blue sky
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
night journey wind
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. Grantland Rice
night caught plus
She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus. Greg Behrendt
night men race
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism — the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem. Gilbert K. Chesterton
night long fame
The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame. Louis Pasteur
night office guy
Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro. Luis Guzman
night empty-life coffins
She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin. John Cheever
night play long
With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by. John Bonham
night hands long
I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.
night reform one-night-stand
Reform is not a one-night stand. John Bolton
night men sky
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. John Boyne
nightmare onstage somebody standing
You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.' Lynn Coady
night
You can't take a night off in the CIML. This is what happens.
night years waiting
And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot Maurice Sendak
night voice tuesday
If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair. Matt Stone
night losing-friends enemy
One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends. Meek Mill
night differences barns
I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but because I could feel Edmond out there somewhere always loving me I didn't have to howl all night. Meg Rosoff
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 sea two
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. Edward Carpenter
night watches needs
I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point. Edie Falco
night years anxiety
I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was "me." For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One night I couldn't stand it anymore. The thought came into my mind, "I cannot live with myself any longer." Eckhart Tolle
night oysters joy
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.