Middle Of The Night Quotes - Page 3

• I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Moving, Italian, Night

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

  Mark Hoppus

  Mom, Night, Car

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• The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Night, Ideas

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• I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Mean, Home

  "Gore Vidal, Novelist of U.S. Past Sees an Empire Replacing Republic He So Admired". Interview with Robert Scheer, www.latimes.com. December 15, 1991.

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• The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Night, Giving, President

  "Chile's earthquake was horrible - but it could have been so much worse" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2010.

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• I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

  Kim Novak

  Night, People, Matter

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• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  Larry Page

  Dream, Morning, Inspiration

  Larry Page’s University of Michigan Commencement Address, googlepress.blogspot.com. May 2, 2009.

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• Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.

  Amy Lee

  Inspiration, Night, Homework

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• Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

  George Eads

  Morning, Fun, Tired

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

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• In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.

  Mary Cantwell

  Daughter, Growing Up, Memories

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• I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Night, Gathering

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.261, Penguin

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• I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Night, Feelings, Paws

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Believe, Sleep

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• No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Sleep, Night

  ALCS News, May 2006.

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• I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Night, Eight, Phones

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.

  Mickey Hart

  Believe, Adventure, Artist

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• Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

  George Will

  Country, Money, Night

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• I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.

  Ester Dean

  Writing, Night, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.

  Rod Stewart

  Inspiration, Night, Middle

  "Rod Stewart: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2012.

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• When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

  Julie Mehretu

  Mom, Morning, Children

  "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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• I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

  Criss Jami

  Morning, Night, Insomnia

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Running, Night, Gun

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• All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

  Julian Barnes

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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• Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces me to connect with the world. When you make four-hour exposures in the middle of the night, you inevitably slow down and begin to observe and appreciate more what's going on around you. In our fast-paced, modern world, it's a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Stars, Moving

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• You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing?

  Charles Yu

  Lying, Heart, Night

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