Midnight Quotes - Page 14

• Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.

  Clive Barker

  Names, Broken, Promise

  Clive Barker (2001). “Cabal”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Mind, Riding

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• Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
  Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
  Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
  And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Love, Lying, Memorable

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.499, Oxford University Press

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• Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Compassion, People

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• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• At Halloween, when fairy sprites
  Perform their mystic gambols,
  When ilka witch her neebour greets,
  On their nocturnal rambles;
  When elves at midnight-hour are seen,
  Near hollow caverns sportin,
  Then lads an' lasses aft convene,
  In hopes to ken their fortune,
  By freets that night.

  Janet Little

  Halloween, Kids, Night

  Janet Little, “On Halloween”

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• Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
  All soft and still and fair;
  The solemn hour of midnight
  Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,
  
  But most where trees are sending
  Their breezy boughs on high,
  Or stooping low are lending
  A shelter from the sky.
  
  And there in those wild bowers
  A lovely form is laid;
  Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
  Wave gently round her head.

  Emily Bronte

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  Emily Bronte, “Moonlight, Summer Moonlight”

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• Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

  Maurice Grimaud

  Hunting, Games, Snow

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• I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.

  Katherine Heigl

  Thinking, Luck, Moments

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• The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Sky

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• Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Space, Void, Cold

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• It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote [“Moon River”] in half an hour.

  Henry Mancini

  Moon, Night, Rivers

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Next Day

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.

  Margaret Davis Bowen

  Mean, Scary, Faithful

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• It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

  Angela Merkel

  Climate Change, Minutes, Five

  "Road to nowhere" by David Cronin, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2008.

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• It’s kind of like, I would say, maybe college recruiting. I’m pretty sure a lot more goes into it in the NBA. A lot more money is spent. I’ve heard stories, guys getting called right at midnight. It’s something that I haven’t experienced. I may want to go through it. I haven’t thought about it at all.

  Rajon Rondo

  College, Nba, Guy

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• One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. …We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Mean, Blood, Satanic

  "'I was a teenage witch': Tea Party candidate". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. September 21, 2010.

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• Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Oil, Buttons

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• Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, My Children

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 1 "The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride" st. 1 (1863)

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• I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

  Mos Def

  Rap, Broadway, Myrtle

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• I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.

  Samuel Beckett

  Moving, Past, Hands

  "Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces".

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• Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts.

  Diane di Prima

  Mother, Song, Strong

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther

  Change, War, Reality

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• I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy Awards. I'd watched in my pajamas the year before! I felt numb - dazed and confused. I remember feeling light - weightless. More like limbo than cloud nine. At first I was like, This is my statue; nobody gets to touch it. And by midnight I was like, Please, someone, take this statue; it's too heavy! So I gave it to my brother, and he went off with it.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Brother, Confused, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Self, House, Brain

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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