Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tom Lehrer

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

Tom Felton

You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.

Steve Wozniak

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.

Steve Lopez

Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.

Steve Fossett

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

Stephane Mallarme

A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.

Vanna Bonta

She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.

Suzanne Collins

Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it is. But as I journey into the night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs.

Suzanne Collins

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

Suzanne Collins

Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

Tariq Ramadan

We should say to the West: "You have been supporting dictators for too many years. Don't expect the people to introduce democracy over night. It is going to take time." It took time with the French revolution, it took time with the Eastern European revolutions. And it is going to take time there.

Taylor Swift

In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.

Steven Morrissey

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm

Susan Hill

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

Sue Monk Kidd

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

Stuart Appleby

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

Steven Van Zandt

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

Steven Tyler

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.

Robert Burns

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.

Robert Burns

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

Robert Browning

Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.

Robert Browning

Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.

Ridley Scott

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

Richard Meier

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

Richard Hawley

The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.

Richard Aldington

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

Richard Aldington

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

Red Skelton

You know, last night it was so cold that my pillow and my sheets fought to see who got under the blankets first.

I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.

Sammy Hagar

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

Tariq Ramadan

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day