Night Time Quotes - Page 4

• The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

  William Shakespeare

  Karma, Time, Revenge

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [388]

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• Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Time, Children, Halloween

  "Rock Me to Sleep" l. 1 (1860)

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• I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

  Paul Kane

  Dark, Night, Fire

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• When it draws near to witching time of night.

  Robert Blair

  Night, Draws

  Robert Blair (1851). “The Grave: A Poem”, p.17

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• I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
  since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
  present twelve o'clock at midnight.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Age, Midnight

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

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• The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

  Henry Reed

  Night, Influence, Concern

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• The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Doctors, Two

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (2015). “Oliver Twist, Volume 2 (of 3) (Illustrations)”, p.48, RICHARD BENTLEY

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• Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

  Joan Didion

  Time, Memories, Night

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Nov 22, 2014

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Appointments

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.232, University of Illinois Press

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• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ideas, Giving, Most Inspiring

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• Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Thinking, Busy

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• I've got to wear sunglasses everywhere, all the time, even if its indoors or at night time, to be recognized. That's part of my job. I cannot take off my sunglasses. For me, staying in the United States was so dark because I can't take them off.

  PSY

  Jobs, Dark, Night

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• In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Hollywood, Olympics

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• You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.

  Stephen Cosgrove

  Fall, Eye, Night

  Stephen Cosgrove (1978). “Kartusch”

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• I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so.

  Brian Austin Green

  Girl, Night, Thinking

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• I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.

  Muhammad Ali

  Running, Night, Talking

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.

  Charlie Watts

  Night, Eight, Play

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• I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Hurt, Heart, Night

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• By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

  Sarah Silverman

  Night, Comedy, Saturday

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• It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Men, Night

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• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

  Heinrich Heine

  Dream, Flower, Heart

  "Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos".

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• I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

  China Machado

  Lying, Night, Naps

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• I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

  Tim Robbins

  Night, Eight, Long Ago

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• 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

  Night, Work Out, Orangutans

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.70, Random House

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