All Night Quotes - Page 17

• All night, my face next
  to your mouth, I hold my breath,
  listening to yours.

  Imtiaz Dharker

  Night, Listening, Mouths

  Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India

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• I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Night, Want

  "Learning to smile" by Nick Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.

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• People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Struggle, Angel, Passion

  Eva Le Gallienne (1966). “The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleonora Duse”

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• My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Father, Sleep, Night

  "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." The all-night drugstore closed at noon.

  Jackie Vernon

  Funny, Dog, Night

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• I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Love Is, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.

  Jonathan Evison

  Party, Book, Night

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• I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Sleep, Cat

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• I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

  Maria Shriver

  Holiday, Kids, Night

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2008.

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• When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry.

  Burial

  Song, Rain, Dark

  "Only five people know I make tunes". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snows I had ever seen. Snow had fallen steadily all night long and in the morning I woke in a room filled with light and silence, the whole world seemed to be held in a dream-like stillness. It was a magical day... and it was on that day I made the Snowman.

  Raymond Briggs

  Dream, Morning, Winter

  "Fictional character: Older James". "The Snowman", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Night, People

  "Killer Mike addresses Michael Brown shooting on CNN" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2014.

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• You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

  Seth Godin

  Night, Good Enough, Settling

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.11, Penguin

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• Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great!

  P. N. Elrod

  Real, Character, Night

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• To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Night, Stories

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• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Religious, Atheist

  "Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

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• The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

  Benjamin Britten

  Inspiring, Sleep, Writing

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• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

  Bill Bryson

  Night, Ice Cream, Childhood

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.115, VNR AG

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• My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

  John Philpot Curran

  Night, Doctors, Dear God

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• That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

  Ace Frehley

  Party, Kissing, Night

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• Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

  David Frost

  Love, Stay Strong, Children

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Grief, Sleep, Heart

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• The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Tired, Night

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• I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

  Ariana Grande

  Song, Sweet, Artist

  "Ariana Grande On Collaborating With Nathan Sykes And Recording One Of The Best Album’s This Year". Interview with Dana Mathews, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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