Midnight Quotes - Page 4

• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Girl, Writing, Hair

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• If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

  Laurence Overmire

  Thinking, Men, Years

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• Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.

  Loren Eiseley

  Journey, Men, Long

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• Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

  John Milton

  Sight, Caves, Shapes

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 1

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• You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivation, Long, Perfect

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

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• I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Player, Watches

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• The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

  Willa Cather

  Lying, Moon, Blue

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

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• I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

  Jerry Falwell

  Seven Days, Week, Seven

  "Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 10, 1997.

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• I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

  Debi Mazar

  Running, Humble, Path

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

  Bo Gritz

  Teamwork, Effort, Finals

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• I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking About You, Caring

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.175, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Oil, Office

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• The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Past, Men, Half

  Frederick Forsyth (2011). “The Fourth Protocol”, p.9, Random House

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• I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sea, Naked, Glad

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

  Jodie Foster

  Business, Cowboy, Reason

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• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Atheist, Cat, Dark

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

  Jillian Bach

  Running, Home, Challenges

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• I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

  Marguerite Young

  Writing, Sleep, Night

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• Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Sweet, Stars, Flower

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• At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

  Robert Trout

  Patriotic, July, Usa

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• We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

  Drew Curtis

  Break Up, Monday, Tonight

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

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• What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Running, Perfect, Hell

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• You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

  James Daly

  Morning, Jobs, Lying

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• New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

  Robert Asprin

  Morning, Night, New Orleans

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• May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Mean, Army, Hype

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