Quotes with night

Quotes 241 till 260 of 309.

  • Djuna Barnes The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Benjamin Britten The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • B. B. King The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Elaine Dundy The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
    The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
    Elaine Dundy
    American writer, actress and journalist (1921 - 2008)
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  • George Orwell The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Gaston Bachelard The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption - pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Burton Richter The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Casey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bob Seger 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.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope 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.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Boris Johnson 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.
    Face it: its all your own fat fault, Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • H. Youngman There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Carrie Fisher There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Andrew Wiles There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • George Borrow There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Andre Norton There's no night without stars.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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