Up All Night Quotes - Page 3

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

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Night, Stories

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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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• New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

  John Gunther

  Stars, New York, Rain

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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• Chris [Kattan] and Will [Ferrell] and I all went out – I don’t want to say where, because it’s a famous restaurant and it’s Italian-owned and I don’t want any trouble. But I ended up throwing up all night from food poisoning. All the blood vessels in my eyes were broken, and the blood vessels in my face. I did not sleep. I walked into the audition and the makeup person said, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you?’ I looked like I was in a car accident.

  Cheri Oteri

  Sleep, Eye, Italian

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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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• I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Night, Speak English

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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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• I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Goodbye, Book, Night

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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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• 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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• I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

  Elton John

  Dad, Kids, Night

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

  Bill Bryson

  Night, Ice Cream, Childhood

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.115, VNR AG

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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