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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• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  The Crack-up 'Sleeping and Walking'

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• The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

  Robert Grudin

  Faith, Time, Memories

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

  Milarepa

  Dream, Yoga, Night

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• Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,
  Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,
  For daytime's vulture talons tear apart
  The tender alcoves built by love at night.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Life, Heart, Night

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• I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.

  Alison Sweeney

  Mom, Goodbye, Grandma

  "'Biggest Loser' host, dog Winky battle pet obesity". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. January 31, 2012.

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• In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Stars, Nightlife

  Source: thequietus.com

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• All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

  Margaret Atwood

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• In your daytime life you have to be more strict.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Strict

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Looking For A Man, Rounds

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• I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].

  Richard Masur

  Girl, New York, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.

  Richard Masur

  Grateful, Opportunity, Resources

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Narcolepsy is a disorder that affects many different areas of life. So in typical patients with narcolepsy, they have something called "excessive daytime sleepiness." So, they're very sleepy during the day. Yet, at night, they're still sleepy, but their sleep is very broken.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Broken

  Source: bigthink.com

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