Night Quotes - page 4

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. (Augusten Burroughs)

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

Philip K. Dick

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

David Trimble

When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.

Keegan-Michael Key

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...

Laurie Halse Anderson

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Lord Dunsany

The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

Matthew Prior

Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

Graham Greene

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And the night shall be filled with music and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Jack Kerouac

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

Robert Frost

All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. (John Ruskin)

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

The streets were dark with something more than night.

Raymond Chandler

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

Boris Johnson

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Norman Mailer

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