Night Quotes - Page 25

• Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

  Michael Bay

  Baby, Sleep, Bombs

  "An Oral History of Michael Bay, the Most Explosive Director of All Time". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Children, Father

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Morning, Stars, Children

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.

  Henry Green

  Long, Feelings, Tears

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• Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
  No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.

  Steven Morrissey

  Music, Alarms, Lasts

  "Song: 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me'". 1987.

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• Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

  Tom Robbins

  Dark, Don't Leave Me, Leaving Me

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.92, Bantam

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• I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

  Garth Brooks

  Risk, Chance, Awake

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• In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Garden, Library

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

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• Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Library, Faces

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition

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• I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence/ Started not to give a f- and stop fearing the consequence/ Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

  Drake

  Drinking, Giving, Accomplishment

  "Song: "Headlines" ("Take Care")". August 9, 2011.

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• Either we're removing a dictator who currently has plans to fund terrorism against American citizens or -- if Bush is completely wrong and Eleanor Clift is completely right -- we're just removing a dictator who plans to terrorize a lot of people in the region, but not Americans specifically. Even for someone like me, who doesn't want America to be the world's policeman, the risk of precipitous action against Saddam Hussein doesn't keep me up at night.

  Ann Coulter

  America, People, Risk

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• Say, I was on The Craig Kilbourne Show and the next day I flew to Minneapolis. I was at the airport and a guy came up. He said, 'Dude, I saw you on TV last night.' But he did not say whether or not he thought I was good, he just confirmed that I was on television. So I turned my head away from him for about a minute, then I turned it back. I said, 'Dude, I saw you at the airport about a minute ago. And you were good.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Next Day, Airports, Guy

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• As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?

  John Tanton

  Explosions, Power And Control

  "Arnold’s Language Barrier", www.motherjones.com. September 8, 2003.

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• I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible and I could never use anything I wrote.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Morning, Inspiration, Home

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• There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they'd be your relatives. But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter 'D'? Because it's a grade that means good enough, but just barely. You know why the Republican symbol is 'R'? Because it's the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Mean, Sharks

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• Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News for You, the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of lager does for Sunday mornings, although I wouldn't know, being more partial to cocaine personally. Allegedly.

  Angus Deayton

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

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• Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!

  Bonnie Tyler

  Hero, Ends

  Song: Holding Out For A Hero

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• I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

  Michelle Branch

  Jobs, Play, Tuesday

  "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

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• I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright Brothers standing at Kitty Hawk were grandiose. John F. Kennedy was grandiose. I accept the charge that I am grandiose and that Americans are instinctively grandiose.

  Newt Gingrich

  Brother, Want, Hawks

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• I am so addicted to crystals, it’s like a sickness. I’ve spent $500,000 on crystals this year. I checked my bank account last night, and I have $203 left.

  Spencer Pratt

  Years, Lasts, Crystals

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• If there is electricity in every village, people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won’t get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity, there is nothing else to do but produce babies.

  Ghulam Nabi Azad

  Baby, Children, Fall

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• Someone spoke to me last night,
  told me the truth. Just a few words,
  but I recognized it.
  I knew I should make myself get up,
  write it down, but it was late,
  and I was exhausted from working
  all day in the garden, moving rocks.

  Dorianne Laux

  Moving, Writing, Garden

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.

  Erwin Blumenfeld

  Real, Two, Giving

  Erwin Blumenfeld, Hendel Teicher (1981). “Blumenfeld, my one hundred best photos”

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• Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

  George Pelecanos

  New York, Block, Heart

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• Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Dream, Regret, Should

  Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.204, Harmony

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