Midnight Oil Quotes

#1. We burned the midnight oil making love, even if it was just kissing and touching, for hours. It could be a single candle, Fourth of July fireworks, or anything in between.

L.A. Witt

#2. There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

Meat Loaf

#3. In the months that followed he brought a rapid succession of cases to court - as he recalled, smelling somewhat of midnight oil.

Anthony Everitt

#4. The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far

Claude C. Hopkins

#5. Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Leontyne Price

#6. There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform our midnight frolics as the inmates burn the midnight oil.

Whipplesnaith

#7. I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

William Shenstone

#8. We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

#9. WHO IS LEARNED? A definition
One who, consuming midnight oil
in studies diligent and slow,
teaches himself, with painful toil,
the things that other people know.

Piet Hein

#10. He wondered briefly what it was like to dream. He never did. Possibly because he so seldom slept. He was obsessed with obtaining all the wealth he could, burning the midnight oil as often as possible. It protected a person from having to do things he didn't want to do.

Lorraine Heath

#11. The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines

Diablo Cody

#12. I want all my drems to come true,
But for that I have to keep patience and burn the midnight oil.

Rahul Rawat

#13. To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

Tommaso Campanella

#14. Long hours, hard labor, or burning the midnight oil will not produce a Milton, a Shakespeare, or a Beethoven. People accomplish great things through quiet moments, imagining that the invisible things from the foundation of time are clearly visible. You can imagine

Joseph Murphy

#15. We both must burn this midnight oil together. You're just as new to me as I am you.
Andrew

Laura Kreitzer

#16. Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

John Gay

#17. Labor is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.

W.B.Yeats

#18. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.

Ray Bradbury

#19. I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

China Machado

#20. I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

Hunter Tylo

#21. There is a good chance that whatever it is you have to accomplish isn't as bad as you think it's going to be, and if you'd just do it, you could see that not only the task wasn't as daunting as you anticipated it would be, but you could get it done in less time than you thought it would take you.

Graham Elliot

#22. The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

John Greenleaf Whittier

#23. If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Leigh Hunt

#24. We must know where we want to go in order to get there. Our modern lives are growing increasingly chaotic, and it is only a clear, definitive purpose that will keep us on track.

Chris Matakas

#25. The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Terence McKenna

#26. Whenever we'd pass a penny on the sidewalk, Matt wouldn't touch it. 'Let someone else have a lucky day,' he'd say.

Sarah Ockler

#27. In other words, he looked like uniformed police hotness, and she wasn't entirely uninterested in being cuffed. Wait. That's a bad thought. I don't mean it. She took him in again, her throat suddenly dry. Well, she didn't exactly not mean it, but she knew better than to want it.

Cindi Madsen

#28. The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

Paul Theroux