Night Shift Quotes

• I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

  Pete Wentz

  Night, Mind, Insomniac

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So there are some people who have a lot of trouble adjusting their rhythms and they have trouble working the night shift, they're sleepy, they're drowsy driving home.

  Shelby Harris

  Home, Sleep, Night

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• My mum was a dinner lady and a cleaner while dad worked night shifts as a hydraulic engineer. They did not have a lot of spare cash and only ever bought what they could afford. We never had a car and cycled everywhere. We never went to restaurants. I did not know what Chinese food tasted like until I was 15.

  Kate Thornton

  Dad, Night, Car

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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  The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

  Stephen King

  Real, Halloween, Feet

  Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.12, Anchor

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• I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the closest I came to research was when I applied to work at the state mental institution in Austin, TX. I wanted to work the night shift like Ken Kesey did when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I thought that might inspire me to write a book that great.

  Arthur Bradford

  Book, Writing, Night

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• It's uncommon, but there are some people who just have a delayed circadian rhythm and they just - they sleep better during the day then they do at night. So they've - a lot of those people with delayed sleep phase disorder they start to work in bars, they work some of the late night shifts, they sort of adjust to doing it more and more as time goes on.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?

  Mike Royko

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, Dad, Father

  "Friends say the real John Boehner nothing like his 'insider' image" by Padmananda Rama and Brianna Keilar, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2010.

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• I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with Night Shift and Splash.

  Brian Grazer

  Moving, Night, Tvs

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• America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

  Will Rogers

  Business, Night, Men

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.

  Werner Herzog

  School, Mean, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

  Henry Winkler

  Money, Men, Female

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• I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.

  Marc Almond

  Girl, Art, Eye

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Crazy, Book

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• There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Children, Book

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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