Daytime Quotes

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

  Sherman Alexie

  Sky, Telescopes, Study

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.68, Random House

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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

  Edith Wharton

  Carpe Diem, Enjoy Life, Action

  Edith Wharton (2002). “Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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• The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more.

  Kevin Gates

  Night, Unhappy, Energy

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• When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

  Aeschylus

  Sleep, Eye, Soul

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• In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

  Eddy de Clercq

  People, Want, Pay

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

  Jim Lampley

  Nbc, Olympics, Host

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• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  Gail Godwin

  Dream, Mean, Language

  Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.

  Jack Wagner

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Night, Emotion

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

  Amelia Barr

  Night, Soul, Body

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.120, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

  Queen Latifah

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

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• I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

  Camille Paglia

  Philadelphia, Personality, Stronger

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• Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Unhappy, Flesh

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.

  Anne Frank

  Dream, Gay, Night

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.108, GENERAL PRESS

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• It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Dream, Sleep, Reflection

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• Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Fall, Sleep

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• I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than listen to people tell my why I want to have children and that I just don't know it yet. I do know, because I'm me and my feelings are the ones in my head. I don't want to have kids, and it's not a device to get attention or have conversations about it. I simply find children incredibly immature and, more often than not, dumb.

  Chelsea Handler

  Children, Kids, Smell

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• Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

  Steven Morrissey

  Mtv, Long, Records

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• I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.

  Alice Munro

  Country, Ironic, Stories

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Dec 26, 2010

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• Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.

  PSY

  Crazy, Night, Korea

  "In South Korea, K-Pop Gets New King". Interview with Guy Raz, wwno.org. September 18, 2012.

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• It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Wall, Eye, Dark

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• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Dark, Theatre

  1955 In the New York Mirror, 27 May.

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• A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Doe, Toads

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.15, Heinemann

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