Overnight Quotes - page 2

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending. (Compay Segundo)
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques. View quote
Donald Byrd
Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates. View quote
Franklin Raines
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. View quote
Gail Godwin
I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake. View quote
Hoda Kotb
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. View quote
Jessica Savitch
With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better. View quote
John Dramani Mahama
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems. View quote
Kelly Jones
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. View quote
Leslie Marmon Silko
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. View quote
Oksana Baiul
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. (Olga Korbut)
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success. View quote
Rick Renzi
I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight. View quote
Robbie Coltraine
Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. View quote
Sargent Shriver
I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot. View quote
Wietse Venema
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. View quote
Adrien Brody
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. View quote
Ken Thompson
Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Life's been quite a journey. My career has been slow, yet steady. I like it that way. I never wished for overnight success. Neither did I want to rush through my career and suffer a burn-out. (Yuvan Shankar Raja)
I decided to look around for something else to worship. Something I could really count on. And immediately, I thought of the sun. Happened like that. Overnight I became a sun-worshiper. Well, not overnight, you can't see the sun at night. But first thing the next morning, I became a sun-worshiper. Several reasons. First of all, I can see the sun, okay? Unlike some other gods I could mention, I can actually see the sun. I'm big on that. If I can see something, I don't know, it kind of helps the credibility along, you know?... View quote
George Carlin
It took Ireland thirty years to become an overnight success. View quote
Bertie Ahern
The sport is more important than anything. More important than any of the people in it. Of course I say what I think. I always have, even if it upsets people like Ecclestone and Balestre. Why should I be afraid of them? The fans aren't here to see politicians and manipulators. They're here to see me. I am very secure in my feelings about racing. I make a lot of money from it, but one thing I can tell you for sure: if the money disappeared overnight, I would still be in racing, because I love it. The entrepreneurs would be gone. View quote
Gilles Villeneuve
We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave. View quote
Katie Holmes