Quotes on Night

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Author: Woody Allen

I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.

Author: Kirstie Alley

Night was running ahead of itself.

Author: Jorge Amado

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Author: Kingsley Amis

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

Author: Paul Anderson

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

Author: Darren Aronofsky

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

Author: Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I do Skid Row every night.

Author: Sebastian Bach

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.

Author: Todd Barry

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

Author: Drew Barrymore

We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.

Author: Gerry Beckley

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Author: Max Beerbohm

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

Author: Yogi Berra

Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be.

Author: Christopher Bond

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.

Author: John Bonham

I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night.

Author: Lizzie Borden

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

Author: Lara Boyle

I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

Author: Eric Bristow

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

Author: Jack Bruce

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

Author: George Cable

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

Author: Herb Caen

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

Author: Bennett Cerf

The streets were dark with something more than night.

Author: Raymond Chandler

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Author: Tracy Chapman

I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

Author: Kate Clinton

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Author: Thomas Cole

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Author: Christopher Columbus

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Author: Fairfax Cone

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.

Author: Tommy Cooper

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

Author: Patricia Cornwell

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

Author: Hernando Cortez

But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

Author: Katie Couric

I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.

Author: Deborah Cox

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

Author: John Curran

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

Author: Evan Dando

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

Author: Rick Danko

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

Author: Grace Darling

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

Author: Erasmus Darwin

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.

Author: Richard Davis

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

Author: Ruth Denis

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Author: Philip Dick

The thing is, playing with us, whoever was the left winger had to come to play every night because that's the way it was. Charlie came in and he just fit that role - big and strong around the net.

Author: Marcel Dionne

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.

Author: Bob Dole

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

Author: Daisy Donovan

I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

Author: Joey Dunlop

I enjoy Saturday night racing.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

Author: Chris Elliott

We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.

Author: Daniel Evans

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

Author: Jim Evans

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

Author: Ron Fairly

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Author: William Faulkner

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

Author: Stan Freberg

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

Author: Dawn French

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Author: Galileo Galilei

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

Author: Barry Gibb

So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.

Author: Mickey Gilley

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

Author: Zane Grey

If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night.

Author: Kathy Griffin

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Author: Philip Guston

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

Author: Bill Haley

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

Author: Jerry Hall

See what I have to put up with every night?

Author: Sean Hannity

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

Author: Mariska Hargitay

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

Author: Phil Hartman

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

Author: Levon Helm

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Author: Audrey Hepburn

From that night on, wherever Barney and I went UFOs paced us.

Author: Betty Hill

One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.

Author: Paris Hilton

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

Author: Paul Hornung

Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night.

Author: John Hunter

If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.

Author: John Hunter

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

Author: Victoria Jackson

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

Author: Derek Jacobi

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

Author: Tahar Jelloun

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Author: Pope John XXIII

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

Author: Al Jourgensen

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Author: Franz Kafka

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

Author: George Kaufman

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

Author: Monica Keena

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Author: Rose Kennedy

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

Author: Nik Kershaw

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

Author: Jewel Kilcher

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

Author: Jewel Kilcher

One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

Author: Ben King

Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.

Author: Lenny Kravitz

Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

Author: Chantal Kreviazuk

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.

Author: Tim LaHaye

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

Author: Sanaa Lathan

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

Author: Spike Lee

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

Author: Vivien Leigh

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

Author: Meriwether Lewis

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Author: O. Link

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

Author: Loretta Lynn

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

Author: Joel Madden

We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

Author: Dan Marino

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

Author: John Mayer

We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play.

Author: Jay McShann

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.

Author: Freddie Mercury

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

Author: Walter Mondale

I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.

Author: Mike Myers

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

Author: Alva Myrdal

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

Author: Steve Nash

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.

Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Author: Pat Nixon

There's no night without stars.

Author: Andre Norton

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

Author: Richard O'Brien

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

Author: Shaquille O'Neal

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

Author: Marina Oswald

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.

Author: Emo Philips

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.

Author: Emo Philips

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Author: Emo Philips

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

Author: Ruth Pitter

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

Author: Priscilla Presley

I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

Author: Bobby Rahal

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Author: Lou Reed

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

Author: Keanu Reeves

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.

Author: Richard Reeves

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.

Author: Geraldo Rivera

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Author: Johnny Rivers

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

Author: Tim Robbins

So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night.

Author: Christy Romano

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.

Author: Emily Rossum

There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.

Author: Pete Rozelle

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

Author: George Russell

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Author: Carl Sagan

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

Author: Bob Seger

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

Author: Harry Shearer

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Author: Frank Sinatra

They got all the size over there, and the teams are really good, so, I think night after night you're just going to have to be ready to lace them up and be ready to play. The teams out there are really good.

Author: Latrell Sprewell

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

Author: Howard Stern

And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.

Author: Fisher Stevens

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

Author: Preston Sturges

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

Author: Amber Tamblyn

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Author: Dylan Thomas

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

Author: James Thurber

Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.

Author: Glenn Tipton

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Author: Anthony Trollope

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

Author: Robin Trower

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

Author: Stanley Tucci

Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

Author: Tanya Tucker

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

Author: Jack Valenti

When you like something, you should do it all night long.

Author: Chavela Vargas

Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.

Author: Bobby Vinton

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

Author: Sarah Vowell