I Am A Night Owl Quotes

#1. Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.

Barack Obama

#2. I am a night owl. I always have been ... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

Rachel Nichols

#3. I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.

Sharon Kay Penman

#4. Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Terry Eagleton

#5. There is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness.

M. Pierce

#6. The hooting of the owl with its tender wing is more familiar to me than the crowing of the cock. I prefer the strings to the woodwinds. Intermission: that is the darkness. The light feels like a vague scratching; it is malaise rather than pain. I am glad to sink back into darkness.

Ernst Junger

#7. I'll watch the night turn light blue, it's not the same without you cause it takes two to whisper quietly

Owl City

#8. I've always been a night owl.

Blake Lively

#9. The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.

Elvis Presley

#10. Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
Do summon us to part, and bid good night.

William Shakespeare

#11. He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.

Lois Greiman

#12. I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.

Sarah Hall

#13. I'm a night owl.

Alanna Ubach

#14. Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it.

William Shakespeare

#15. Oft in the silence of the night,
When the lonely moon rides high,
When wintry winds are whistling,
And we hear the owl's shrill cry,
In the quiet, dusky chamber,
By the flickering firelight,
Rising up between two sleepers,
Comes a spirit all in white.

Louisa May Alcott

#16. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

Mervyn Peake

#17. A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night ... it's still a bloody bird.

Oliver Reed

#18. I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

Michael Scott