Night Quotes - page 14

[Writing songs] is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want. (Jason Mraz)
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk. View quote
Emil Cioran
Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions. View quote
Emil Cioran
What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself. View quote
Emil Cioran
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about. View quote
Al Gore
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night. View quote
Steven Wright
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you? View quote
Steven Wright
I went for a walk last night, and my kids asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.' View quote
Steven Wright
Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men. (Archilochus)
How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night? View quote
Cesare Pavese
I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another. View quote
Catherine Doherty
I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night. View quote
Mae West
At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. View quote
Seneca
I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days. View quote
Willie Nelson
When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters. View quote
Stephen Crane
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather. View quote
Isaac Barrow
There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City – the intuition that I had been there already. (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright. View quote
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. View quote
John Dryden
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? View quote
George Borrow