Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Poundstone

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.

Pauly Shore

I really don't go out every night to red-carpet events.

Phil Collins

I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.

Peter S. Beagle

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

Peter Cook

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Raphael Saadiq

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

Robert Higgs

Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people's natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they - the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate - are themselves the government.

Rick Pitino

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

Taylor Caldwell

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

Sylvia Plath

I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.

Sylvia Plath

It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept any more.

Sylvia Plath

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

Swami Vivekananda

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Swami Vivekananda

Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.

Ron Fournier

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.

Ron Fournier

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

Samantha Shannon

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

Rupert Brooke

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.

Rupert Brooke

Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow

Rumi

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

Rumi

I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.

Rumi

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

Rumi

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

Rumi

Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.

Tupac Shakur

You need to hit the door, search for a new guy. Cause I only got one night in town.

Tupac Shakur

If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

Tracy Morgan

The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.

Tracy Morgan

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'

Tracy Morgan

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

Tracy Morgan

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

Tracy Morgan

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

Tracy Morgan

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.