One Night Quotes - Page 6

• One night I'm going to have a big night scoring; some nights I'm going to have a big night doing other things. Just doing whatever it takes to win the ballgame, not necessarily sitting up here worrying about scoring 30 points.

  Dwyane Wade

  Winning, Night, Worry

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• For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

  Sophocles

  Good Night, Thousand, Wells

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• The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

  Nicole Kidman

  Truth, Night, Reality

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• Actually it was easier than you'd think. We were the guys who had the opportunity to play for something. Only 26 players on the eight teams had that chance. We would wake up in the morning and have a reason to train. We are able to have four weeks to play at this level. Since the first day our policy was not to talk about the labor situation. Our goal was to win. We'll enjoy it for one night. Then the reality of the owners locking us out sets in.

  Kris Draper

  Morning, Team, Player

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• So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Romance, Coward

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• On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

  Vivien Leigh

  Grandchildren, Night, Atlanta

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• It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote [“Moon River”] in half an hour.

  Henry Mancini

  Moon, Night, Rivers

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• One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.

  Meek Mill

  Night, Losing Friends, Enemy

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• I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Night, Men

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• I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Morning, New York, Party

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Rock Star" by Christopher, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp.

  Matt Labash

  Night, Laughing, Comedian

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• Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Sacrifice, Night

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• The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.

  Graham Russell

  Dream, Night, Air

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• One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

  Tommy Chong

  Night, Trying, Causes

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• Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.

  Don Frye

  Fighting, Winning, Night

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• Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

  Eddie Huang

  Night, Soup, Wanting More

  Eddie Huang (2013). “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir”, p.4, Spiegel & Grau

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• You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspirational, Graduation, Night

  "Commencement 2013 Speakers: Obama to Oprah Winfrey Bestow Words of Wisdom". abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2013.

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• Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

  Sarah Zettel

  Night, People, Trying

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• Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

  Nancy Mairs

  Girl, Children, Cat

  Nancy Mairs (1992). “Plaintext”, University of Arizona Press

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• I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.

  Burl Ives

  Couple, Night, Daddy

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• I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

  Al McGuire

  Fighting, Night, Missing

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• When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

  Dale Chihuly

  Life, Positive, Night

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• The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

  William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

  Army, Night, Rebel

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• Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

  Robert Cormier

  Hard Work, Writing, Character

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all the videos and I just thought it was horrible, Pickler told People. It's animal cruelty. A lot of it has to do with knowing what happens to the animals and it really bothered me and so I will not eat meat.

  Kellie Pickler

  Sleep, Night, Animal

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