- Hands
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- 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
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.
- Best Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I'll get ideas in the middle of the night. Sometimes at 3 in the morning I'll get up, and I have a notebook by my bed and have to write it down. I'll dream an idea. Sometimes I see an image online, and I think, 'OK, let's make that a three-layer cake!'
- Glued
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.
- Even Worse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to 'fix' the situation - which isn't possible anyway.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the worst night owl, because I'm a self-loathing night owl who thinks, 'No, I should be getting up early.' It feels unproductive. I must get over that.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.
- Uncertainty
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- Nov 07, 2020