Midnight Quotes - Page 17

• it is midnight
  no magical bewitching
  hour for me

  Sonia Sanchez

  Night, Magic, Hours

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Alcohol, Bed, Bars

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• Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

  Philip Sidney

  Moon, Men, Quality

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• Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are to be found? In the Mountains of the Moon, in the Central Africa of the night, there is where all Niles have their hidden heads. The expeditions up the Nile as yet extend but to the Cataracts, or perchance to the mouth of the White Nile; but it is the black Nile that concerns us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Moon, Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1258, Delphi Classics

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• If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

  Janine Benyus

  New Year, Nature, Animal

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• I take Peeta's face in my hands. "Don't worry. I'll see you at midnight.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Worry, Faces

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.370, Scholastic Inc.

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• A song was heard at Christmas
  To wake the midnight sky:
  A saviour's birth, and peace on earth,
  And praise to God on high.
  The angels sang at Christmas
  With all the hosts above,
  And still we sing the newborn King
  His glory and his love.

  Timothy Dudley-Smith

  Christmas, Song, Kings

  "Song: 'A Song Was Heard At Christmas'".

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• I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

  Christian McKay

  Thinking, Citizens, Film

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• "Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

  Franz Kafka

  Sad, Want, Said

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Apples, Swans

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Good Night, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• I say that what one loves is best:
  The midnight fastness of the heart.

  Allen Tate

  Heart, Love Is, One Love

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.162, Macmillan

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• I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.

  Robert Benchley

  Dance, People, Theatre

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• When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Book

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• Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Morning, Wall, Inspiration

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• But most thro' midnight streets I hear
  How the youthful Harlots curse
  Blasts the new-born Infants tear
  And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

  William Blake

  Children, Abuse, Tears

  William Blake (1971). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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• The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

  Summer Sanders

  Sleep, Alarms, Matter

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• I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, June, Practice

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts”, p.127

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• When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking up again around ten, going until a touch after midnight. I rarely write in the morning, unless I'm on deadline. I do like rewriting in the morning, though. Guess it's the way my brain's put together. Or, the way it's falling apart.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Morning, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.buffaloalmanack.com

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• I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

  Nicolas Cage

  Passion, Family Oriented, Audience

  "Nicolas Cage On Set Interview DRIVE ANGRY 3D". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. July 19, 2010.

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• What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

  Lord Byron

  Hero, Writing, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

  Roger Miller

  Work, Shoes, Car

  Song: King of The Road

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• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Owl, Phrases

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

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• My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel like I want to transfer it from the notebook to the page, I do, and then comes this very strange process which is difficult to describe in that I'll write until I get stuck or I can't go any further or I'm boring myself or whatever and then I might go to another poem.

  Rita Dove

  Notebook, Eye, Writing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.

  Ron Wyden

  Government, People, Listening

  "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.

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