One Night Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when we were lying in bed and, if I recall correctly, I asked Tracy if we were ready to have a family now, and she said sure. That was it.

  Ryan Knighton

  Lying, Night, Decision

  Ryan Knighton (2010). “C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark”, p.9, Knopf Canada

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Fighting, Night

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• One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store ... A bunch of ideas were bounced around, then, as we were all new to business, someone suggested Virgin. It smacked of new and fresh and at the time the word was still slightly risqué, so, thinking it would be an attention-grabber, we went with it.

  Richard Branson

  Girl, Night, Thinking

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• I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

  Charles Bukowski

  Night, Voice, Fire

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• One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

  Jasper Johns

  Morning, Night, Flags

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Feet, Discovery

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

  Arsene Wenger

  Night, Scared, Ifs

  "Arsène Wenger may well spend heavily for Arsenal in transfer market" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2014.

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• One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

  Brian Eno

  Wine, Night, Python

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• I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so.

  Brian Austin Green

  Girl, Night, Thinking

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• I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

  Al Jourgensen

  Night, Clubs, Arena

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• I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

  Norman Reedus

  Girl, Jobs, Party

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• No, I was never that kind of guy. I believed in true romance; one-night stands are always going to leave you feeling cold and empty. I was always looking for the real thing, romance, and all that. I love being married. I never liked the idea of going to bars and chasing girls. Some guys might enjoy that, but I always wanted to find that one special woman, which I did when I met Jenna.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, Real, Night

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• I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

  Beth Broderick

  New Year, Growing Up, Home

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

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• One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers to come up from Fall River, because if I didn't get my stuff I was too sick to even go through the pre-game layup line, never mind actually play in the game.

  Chris Herren

  Fall, Player, Night

  Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds (2011). “Basketball Junkie: A Memoir”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
  Sailed off in a wooden shoe, -
  Sailed on a river of crystal light
  Into a sea of dew.

  Eugene Field

  Night, Light, Sea

  "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" l. 1 (1889)

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• Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

  Richard O'Brien

  Home, Cutting, Night

  Metro.Co.Uk Interview, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

  David Soul

  Struggle, Night, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Dream, Heart

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.

  William McKinley

  Uplifting, Night, Light

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• The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night.

  Kirk Hammett

  Night, Sandman

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• One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Religious, Night, Glowing

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• Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand.

  Kevin Gates

  Night, One Night Stand, Battlefields

  Song: Twilight

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• The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Night, Years

  "High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories". Book by Robertson Davies, 1982.

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