Midnight Quotes - Page 19

• Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Blessed, Eight

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

  Richard Bach

  Suicide, Suicidal, Starting Over

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• It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.

  Clinton Scollard

  Moon, Sky, Owl

  Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”

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• You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Guy, Bed

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• Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

  John Gay

  Book, Learning, Oil

  'Fables' (1727) introduction, l. 15.

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• Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, 'I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight', people would say, 'Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth.

  Michael J. Jackson

  Believe, Men, Nuts

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• The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Prayer, Blessed

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.753, e-artnow

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• There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

  Meat Loaf

  Oil, Australia, Political

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

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• There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

  Charles Mackay

  Flower, Blow, Men

  Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

  Roger Ebert

  Food, Loss, Track

  "Life Itself". Documentary, January 19, 2014.

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• The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

  Keith Miller

  Coffee, Writing, Wine

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• Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

  Chris Colfer

  Memories, Growing Up, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

  Peter Joseph

  Our World, Government, Suits

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics!

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Hollywood, Palaces

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• Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

  Thomas Gray

  Towers, London, Murder

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1814). “The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.69

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• Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.

  Sharon G. Larsen

  Love Is, Listening, Way

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• I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.

  Rebecca Godfrey

  Girl, Flower, Book

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• I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Morning, Children, Fighting

  Boyd K. Packer (1975). “Teach Ye Diligently”

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• Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.

  Neil Shubin

  Party, Animal, June

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• I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it. I'm different - when I kidnapped Bill Lawrence's daughter, I cut off all of her fingers before sending my demands so that I wouldn't have to sit there and wait for him to ignore them. We worked things about about nine hours in, which is good because I ate her thumb as a midnight snack.

  Zach Braff

  Daughter, Children, Cutting

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• Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

  Christian Bauman

  Change, Writing, Persistence

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• I feel like my pure and proper image is causing others to be really cautious about becoming close to me. They think I sleep as soon as it hits midnight

  Seohyun

  Sleep, Thinking, Becoming

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• At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern.
  After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes.
  By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Numbers, Clouds

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• It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than it is Susan B. Anthony's 50-year effort to transform the face of America for women? When you're in school, most of the events you study are about men. Men's activities lauded and repeated over and over. What about us? What about commemorating the decades-long struggle for suffrage? Why don't we hear those stories over and over and over again. It's almost inconceivable for men to understand what it would be like to live without that constant valorization.

  Judy Chicago

  Struggle, School, Men

  "Judy Chicago Is Connecting The Dots Of Feminist History, One Exhibition At A Time". Interview with Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2014.

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