Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Brand

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Steve Kerr

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

Steve Jobs

I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.

Stephen Rea

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

Molly Shannon

When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

Paula McLain

How unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn't keep and should never have spoken aloud. That's how love is sometimes. I already loved him more than I'd ever loved anything or anyone. I knew he needed me absolutely, and I wanted him to go on needing me forever.

Paula McLain

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.

Paula Poundstone

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

Paula Poundstone

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

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.

Phyllis Diller

Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour.

Phyllis Diller

My house used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven't been back since the night I tried on all my wigs.

Phyllis Diller

When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.

Phyllis Diller

A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.

Philip Pullman

The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air. . .and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

Rachel Cohn

It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.

Rabindranath Tagore

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

Rabindranath Tagore

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Rabindranath Tagore

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

Terence McKenna

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

Ted Lindsay

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

Ted Hughes

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

Sean Hannity

See what I have to put up with every night?

Si Robertson

A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.

Shimon Peres

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shelby Lynne

Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.