- Saturday
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.
- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020