Up All Night Quotes - Page 3

• The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

  Sarah Thornton

  Artist, Night, World

  Sarah Thornton (2012). “Seven Days In The Art World”, p.66, Granta Books

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• Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.

  Jim Rohn

  Truth, Ignorance, Night

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• To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Night, Stories

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• I remember staying up all night waiting to see the first screening of Cape Fear because you knew that every time Robert DeNiro had a performance it was going to be revelatory. Then DeNiro hit this place, he seemed like he was done with the emotional cost of impaling himself like that, and he dedicated himself to comedy.

  Ethan Hawke

  Night, Emotional, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Winning, Night

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• The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.

  Paul Hawken

  Running, Night, Sight

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Home, Animal

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Agnostic, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Night, People, Feels

  "Author Sidney Sheldon talks about his new novel, 'The Sky Is Falling'". Live Chat, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2000.

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

  Herb Caen

  Stay Strong, Anger, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Tired, Night

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• I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

  Liam Gallagher

  Good Night, Goodnight, Past

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• I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

  Jim Carrey

  Night, Animal, Guy

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• Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

  David Frost

  Love, Stay Strong, Children

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

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• I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Hate, Fall

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• If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

  Daniel Handler

  Good Night, Book, Fall

  "The Austere Academy". Book by Daniel Handler, 2000.

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• You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

  Jodi Picoult

  Night, People, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Night, Long Ago

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• I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I’ve met some great guys here, but I didn’t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don’t feel like they are real friends. I haven’t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. It’s kind of hard to beat that.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Growing Up, Real, Home

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• Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant.

  Michael Grant

  Reading, Writing, Tired

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• Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

  Allen Ginsberg

  Reading, Eye, Winter

  Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish, Part I”

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• Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Loneliness, Rain, Kids

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Night, Thinking

  "The greatest Lemony Snicket quotes ever" by Heather Sandlin, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2015.

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• You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

  James Thurber

  Home, Night, Gertrude

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