Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Terry Pratchett

Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.

Terry Pratchett

And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.

Terry Pratchett

I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind...

Terry Eagleton

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Teresa Medeiros

A lady has every right to defend herself against unsought advances. And creatures of the night.

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.

Shelby Lynne

I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.

Sharon Cooper

But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and the latent misogyny? As long as they continue to act like women are a separate species and, thus, not relate to us as HUMAN BEINGS, they'll continue to alienate the majority of us on sight or send those unfortunate souls who actually date them (Bleh!) screaming into the night.

Sean Patrick Thomas

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

Lewis Thomas

I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell

Lee Konitz

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

Lee Majors

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

Larry David

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

Marco Rubio

Let me tell you something, last night in the debate, during one of the breaks, two of the breaks, Donald Trump went backstage. He asked for a full length mirror. I don`t know why because the podium goes up to here. He wanted a full length mirror. Maybe to make sure his pants weren`t wet. I don`t know.

Marco Rubio

Donald Trump twitts "Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night." This is true. "The problem is he`s chalker and once a chalker, always a choker", I guess that`s what he meant to say. He spelled choker, c-h-o-k-e-r.

Marcus Aurelius

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Rosemary Clooney

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

Sandra Cisneros

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

Samuel Johnson

I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Samantha Bond

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

Sam Cooke

Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody…..

Ryan Giggs

My weight doesn't really fluctuate, but I make sure I don't eat late at night. It's about making sure I'm right physically because mentally I'm OK.