Night Quotes - Page 33

• I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

  Walter D. Asmus

  Theatre, Actors, Standing Out

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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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• Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

  Jeb Bush

  Stars, Space, Heaven

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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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• You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being taxed; you're taking a plunge on a fly-by-night stock issue.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Issues, Worry, Irs

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

  Tom Robbins

  Fun, Insecurity, Taste

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• Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Eight, Upset

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.

  Joseph Williams

  War, Fighting, Yesterday

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• And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

  Victor Hugo

  Christmas, Air, Doors

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• When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Sleep, One Day, Care

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• One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

  Charles Kelley

  Thanksgiving, Morning, Brother

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• I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Believe, Moving, Heart

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• You love to listen to the very things that nailed your supposed Master to the tree?! Come off of it, man! Become a hellion, give yourself to demons, run wild; but don't come in here saying you're a believer and playing that game! You want to dance with the devil, then dance all night long! But don't come in here dancing with Christ for a moment, and then go back out there and share your love.

  Paul Washer

  Running, Men, Games

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• Silent night, holy
  night, when the bough flies from the tree
  and is hung everywhere, when
  from tables the crusts fly,
  when the gifts begin to tremble
  because lovelessness walks through the world,
  because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow,
  and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery,
  and the silver and gold, and a golden word
  come to you on which you choke
  because you have been sold and betrayed,
  and because it does not suffice that for you
  one is redeemed who once died.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Rip, Snow, Tree

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• I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

  David Lee Roth

  Drinking, Glasses, Light

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• Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

  Nancy Mitford

  Summer, Spring, Hands

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.

  William O. Douglas

  Fall, Twilight, Air

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• It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.

  Pat Conroy

  Regret, Prayer, Mean

  The Prince of Tides epilogue (1986)

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• I mean, sleeping with the same woman, night after night. Boring!

  Laura Kightlinger

  Mean, Sleep, Boring

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• ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Atlanta, Enjoy, Reader

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• People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going to Toledo but you're actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren't driving well

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, People, Needs

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