Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

Edward Abbey

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

Edward Abbey

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

Aristotle

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

Ben Kingsley

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

Eddie Vedder

There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.

Eddie Vedder

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead...

Ed McMahon

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

Earl Nightingale

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

Earl Nightingale

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?

Earl Nightingale

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Earl Nightingale

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Earl Nightingale

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Earl Nightingale

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Elizabeth Bibesco

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

Elena Roger

Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night.

Dominic Monaghan

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

Dito Montiel

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

Dave Morin

I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night.

David Nicholls

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

David Nicholls

For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.

Aharon Appelfeld

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

Aaron Hill

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

Senior night is great, but I want to go dancing.

She's here until 9 or 10 at night.

Carrie Fisher

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

Liam Gallagher

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Walter Benjamin

Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

Rick Barnes

We had a tough night shooting the ball.

Albert Einstein

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did

Alexander Herzen

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

Alexander Graham Bell

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.