Night Quotes - Page 39

• When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Kinky, Moments

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• My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Art, Morning, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Georges St-Pierre from Jun 15, 2011

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• You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.

  Cobi Jones

  Fans, Use, Crowds

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• Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Dream, Believe, Love Is

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• Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

  Tony Dungy

  Children, Parent, Four

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• Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Past, Drunk

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.99, Lulu.com

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• If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Would Be, Franklin

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• America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

  Michael Bywater

  Beer, Ideas, America

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• The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mother, Moon, Rock And Roll

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• So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. The honeymoon should not happen after marriage, it should happen before marriage. One should have lived the dark nights, the beautiful days, the sad moments, the happy moments, together. One should have looked into each other's eyes deeply, into each other's being.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Mean

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• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Art, Philosophy

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

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• Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

  Gene Tunney

  Dream, Morning, Believe

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• Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Pygmalion, Two

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• Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Years, Months, Time Management

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• To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

  Henry Beston

  Evil, Absurd, Artificial

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Most every day — if not every day — for the rest of your life, you will be reminded or think of this night. And I want to thank you in advance right now for the great memories it’s going to be.

  Bill Self

  Memories, Thinking, Want

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• The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
  Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
  The tragedy of human love and need?
  Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

  George Sterling

  Brother, Stars, Tragedy

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• You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.

  Ernie Els

  Two, Leaving, Fans

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• The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

  T. S. Eliot

  Sleep, Church, Way

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.

  Jeremy Lin

  Priorities, Important, Church

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

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• I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

  Georgina Chapman

  Animal, Ideas, Would Be

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• Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind of person you are. What you'll do and why and when you'll do it. What you believe in. What you really believe in.

  Charlie Huston

  Believe, Thinking, Kind

  Charlie Huston (2007). “Half the Blood of Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.46, Del Rey

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• A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
  As night descends upon the fabled street:
  A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
  And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
  Here though the world explode, these two survive,
  And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

  Vincent Starrett

  Lonely, Rain, Past

  Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber (1995). “More Books Alive: New Treasures from a Master Literary Detective”, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box

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• Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

  Ben Webster

  Cities, Kansas City, Different

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• A thousand ages in Thy sight
  Are like an evening gone;
  Short as the watch that ends the night
  Before the rising sun.

  Isaac Watts

  Sight, Age, Gone

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.148

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