Top 100 A Night Quotes
#1. What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.
Francis Quarles
#2. The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.
George Benson
#3. One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.
Ben E. King
#4. Mr. Persichetti was a night nurse at the state hospital, inspired
Alice McDermott
#5. Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
Tom Stoppard
#6. what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night
Barbra Streisand
#7. You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.
Robert Downey Jr.
#9. The page is as white as my face after a night of weeping. It is as sterile as my devastated mind. All martyrdoms are in vain. He also is drowning in the blood of too much sacrifice.
Lay aside the weapons, love, for all battles are lost.
Elizabeth Smart
#10. I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.
Jane Green
#11. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider
Thomas Watson
#12. A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
Charles Bukowski
#13. There's time for laughing and there's time for crying
for hoping for despair for peace for longing
- a time for growing and a time for dying:
a night for silence and a day for singing
but more than all(as all your more than eyes
tell me)there is a time for timelessness
E. E. Cummings
#14. If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.
John Hunter
#15. Throughout my entire miserable childhood I woke at least once a night weeping from overwhelming delight. I did it hungry, I did it after beatings, I did it after the deaths of loved ones.
Now you tell me if I'm crazy or if I've always been blessed.
Bob Thurber
#16. I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
Patsy Cline
#17. Whoever said confession was good for the soul hadn't been forced to take one after half a night's sleep.
Sabrina Jeffries
#18. Remember: there are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. The
Patrick Rothfuss
#19. Tent for a day and a night. The tent shook and heaved, and voices
Diana Gabaldon
#20. That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night, take vitamins, eat organic foods, skip foods that aren't good for me, and I surround myself with amazing artists and friends.
Beth Riesgraf
#21. We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it ... It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.
Elvis Presley
#22. I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in't: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.
William Shakespeare
#23. I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me.
Newt Gingrich
#24. The dusk had arrived on the wings of a night moth, silent and soft. The sky above me darkened to a deep, beautiful purple. Stars glowed high above, and below them, as if inspired by their light, tiny fireflies awoke and crawled from their shelter in the leaves.
Ilona Andrews
#25. Well, lookee there. Be a fuck of a night, yay?
Stacia Kane
#26. The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called.
"On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed," came the response.
Robin Jarvis
#28. The silence rings - it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible - I hear the unspeakable.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.
Steve Yzerman
#30. Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.
Daniel Levitin
#31. I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I'm more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world.
Jerri Nielsen
#32. A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her doorstep like a bone.
Wallace Stegner
#35. St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#36. I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
Chick Corea
#37. I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.
Taylor Swift
#38. I come alive at night. I'm such a night owl.
Mpho Koaho
#39. We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.
Steve Kerr
#40. In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.
Judah Friedlander
#41. You may never know a night's peace again. Knowledge is power, young man. Power to do good and power to do harm. Some knowledge can hurt. Some can kill.
Jim Butcher
#42. I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.
John Darnielle
#43. Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
Douglas MacArthur
#44. After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.
Tobias Lindholm
#46. I have to have eight hours a night. I feel that everything falls apart if you don't sleep. If I spend four hours memorizing dialogue but don't sleep, then the next day I will not be able to stand in front of the camera and say my lines. For me, sleep is the number one thing.
Cote De Pablo
#47. Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.
Jack Kerouac
#48. I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.
Jimmy Buffett
#49. I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.
Tim Robbins
#50. I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.
Richard Ayoade
#51. Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.
Regina Doman
#52. It was like giving a homeless kid a night in a luxury hotel. It only made a bad situation worse. Once a person knows that kind of pleasure, they just wanted it again. And again.
Santino Hassell
#53. I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
Robin Trower
#54. Here, rancid air hangs heavily in a void, its texture thick, liquid, clinging, in a night full of the hot smells of decay.
Robert Dunbar
#55. Then we'll take the train to Paris tonight. There is a night train, isn't there? We'll catch it at Cannes.
Francoise Sagan
#56. I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.
Jenny Holzer
#58. I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
Robert Plant
#60. I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.
Erma Bombeck
#61. My parents' room is an uncataloged planet, a night sky presence unknown to scientists but feared by the secret faithful who trade rumors of its mystery.
John Darnielle
#62. It was a night replaying its corrosive recurrence on the road of our lives, on the road which was hungry for great transformations.
Ben Okri
#63. God darkens our awareness in order to keep us safe. When we cannot chart our own course, we become vulnerable to God's protection, and the darkness becomes a "guiding night," a "night more kindly than the dawn."5
Gerald G. May
#65. Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
Thomas Watson
#66. Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.
Sanjay Gupta
#67. I love to start the morning with a mist spray, especially after a night out.
Lily James
#68. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars ...
Martin Luther King Jr.
#69. The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.
Arthur Smith
#70. When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.
Kate Bush
#71. To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.
Nicole Krauss
#72. One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#73. London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.
Chris Cleave
#74. Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
Rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
Tangled in a silver braid.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#75. A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
Oliver Goldsmith
#76. I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
Caitlin Moran
#78. Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?
Sorin Cerin
#79. At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.
Kamand Kojouri
#80. 'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
Gary Sinise
#81. When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
Jane Austen
#82. To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.
Indiana Lang
#83. Cinderella never asked for a prince, she asked for a night off and a dress
Kiera Cass
#84. Everyone was boarding a night train, heading to a far-off destination. Tsukuru envied them. At least they had a place they needed to go to.
Haruki Murakami
#85. Ye've done that afore."
Raul spat. "I've done most things before. And some of them twice. And three times a night with your sister.
Robert Lyndon
#86. When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.
Rachel Cohn
#88. The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first time in his life, he was fully conscious of his own happiness - was a night that he would never discuss with anyone at all.
Michael Chabon
#89. We could make this work, you know."
"I will knee you in the groin."
"I could give you a night you will never forget."
"Because you will be writhing in agony all night and I will laugh unmercifully. It will be unforgettable.
Darynda Jones
#90. Kevin's nice front bulge in his jeans. If everything were different, he'd still let Will's cowboy uncle plow him for a night or three. He'll never share that information with his handsome, hunky bride, though.
Leta Blake
#91. Nothing like a night of whoring to turn a man soft.
Mark Lawrence
#93. And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.
Criss Angel
#94. After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.
Donna Air
#95. But finally, into the world came a baby girl, just as, I'm very, very sorry to say, her mother, and my sister, slipped away from the world after a long night of suffering - but also a night of joy, as the birth of a baby is always good news, no matter how much bad news the baby will hear later.
Lemony Snicket
#96. Like a lightning bug ... Like a lightning bug? ... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.
Reinaldo Arenas
#97. Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.
Thom Yorke
#98. Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.
James Joyce
#99. I think three debates is good. I think it should be on a night where viewers are going to be able to watch.
Donald Trump
#100. I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.
Jennifer Damiano
