Quotes with midnight

  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
  • When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. I'd sneak down the hallway, try to avoid the creaking floor boards and go in and watch the 'Midnight Movie.'

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  • William Shakespeare Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
    Business Review, Volume 22
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Dorothy Parker Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Walt Whitman I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bram Stoker It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Casey Wilson It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Angela Carter Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bob Dylan Now at midnight all the agents, and the superhuman crew, come out and round up everyone, that knows more then they do.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Geldof Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • A. E. Housman The rainy Pleiads wester,
    Orion plunges prone,
    The stroke of midnight ceases,
    And I lie down alone.
    More Poems (1936) No. 11, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Calvin Coolidge We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
    Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2004 edition), Kessinger Publishing
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bill Moseley When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. I'd sneak down the hallway, try to avoid the creaking floor boards and go in and watch the 'Midnight Movie.'
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Barry Cornwall Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Casey Stengel You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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