- Nov 07, 2020
Night Quotes
What the night reveals.
These night quotes range from describing an empty venue as lifeless after dark, to recalling an awkward formal evening cut short by injury. Another notes the unequal treatment people can face late at night depending on circumstance. Related reflections continue in our Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of focus on my own stuff, really, and then when people come into my territory, I've got to fight them away, and that's what we do every time fight night happens.
- Embarked
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was point man, which meant I was the first through the door, hunting down Taliban commanders, knocking down forts every night.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it helps to have a good old-fashioned trajectory, plodding along. Obviously one has an ego and it's really easy to have that ego tickled, but what helps me get through the night is if I concentrate on just quality of work so that I don't panic about my profile.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our television set was in the bedroom. I can picture my mother fast asleep, exhausted from driving my brothers around. I can picture the Maple Leafs playing the Canadiens. One or the other would always be on the CBC on Saturday night.
- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thank God every night for David Stern.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020