Top 100 Night Before Quotes
#1. They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.
Alethea Kontis
#2. Peace, and not riches, had been the great legacy which He had left with the eleven the night before His crucifixion.
J.C. Ryle
#3. You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.
Liam Gallagher
#4. God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.
Jim Norton
#5. I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.
Ellen DeGeneres
#6. The night before I left home, there was the wake in our kitchen as was the custom for anyone going so far away. The kitchen was full of people, two men left their flash lamps lit
Edna O'Brien
#7. And then, in the night, he'd go to the Empire again. The things that he'd felt the night before, he wanted to feel again. He wanted to understand. All at once, Dr. Carter's hand felt too heavy,
Anonymous
#8. Before starting a fitness program or diet, know why you're doing it. Have specific goals with deadlines and visualize the end result each night before going to bed.
Robert Cheeke
#9. I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#10. In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.
Denise Levertov
#11. Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they're playing division games, so you limit travel. Now the question is, should you play Sunday night before a Thursday night?
John Madden
#13. Don't save it till the night before," she said, sitting on her desk and swinging her legs. "It will read like you wrote it the night before. I'm not interested in steam of consciousness.
Rainbow Rowell
#14. I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
Lisa Marie Presley
#15. As they'd agreed the night before on their cold balcony, scripting out this dialog, there would be three large lies in this conversation. This was the first.
Chris Pavone
#16. The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.
Claudia Black
#17. I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.
Amy Sedaris
#18. I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
Oliver Sacks
#19. I saw 'Animal House' in the theater the night before I left for college. And for better or worse, it made an impression. Within a week, I was in a fraternity myself.
Neil Flynn
#20. Keg in the closet pizza on the floor left over from the night before, where we were going we didn't really care. We had all we ever wanted in that keg in the closet.
Kenny Chesney
#21. The alcohol induced memory loss is a form of protection from all the stupid things you did the night before.
Kirsty Moseley
#22. Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed. There's very little private time with the children in the early years. Actually, there's much more private time with the children in the 20s.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#23. Planning of the next day's activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.
Lynda Resnick
#25. Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#26. Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
Don Marquis
#27. The feeling of the morning after the night before is not a sensation endured by the dissolute only: every morning, for every human being, is in some sort a morning after the night before...
Patrick Hamilton
#28. The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.
Scott Ellis
#29. The morning skate was a game-day ritual dating back to the seventies, introduced in North America by the Russians, and used as an attendance taking to make sure players who may have been out carousing the night before finished sweating the alcohol out of their system before the game.
Shawna Richer
#30. Twas the night before Thanksgiving.
All the food's in the oven.
And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.
Craig Ferguson
#31. The Greatest thing about masturbation is that it is always available. I wager that many a condemn man has consoled himself this way during the night before his execution.
Robert Anton Wilson
#32. I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
Gloria Estefan
#33. Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.
Mary Karr
#34. The miraculous power of love has often been underestimated just like we underestimate the power of sleep. Most of the herculean tasks performed by men were possible because they had been deeply in love and had slept well the night before.
Vivek Pereira
#35. Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.
Tina Fey
#36. If I don't get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I'm doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.
Roger Craig Smith
#37. Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.
Mark-Anthony Turnage
#39. Kane pulled a key from a piece of thread around his neck that looked just like the skeleton key Gerald had given Peter the night before, and slid it into the keyhole. "Welcome," said Kane dramatically, as he pushed the doors open, "to the complete and secret history of the Watchers.
C.A. Gray
#40. Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was particularly interested. For Roosevelt knew, all the leaders royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.
Dale Carnegie
#41. One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
Kin Hubbard
#42. I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
Preston Sturges
#43. When the sun begins to set, we do exactly as we did the night before. Caroline fusses over Dink. Jaxon ogles Harper. The boys gather desert debris for our beds. Guy watches me undress. I imagine our wedding.
Victoria Scott
#44. At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.
Steve Almond
#45. Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
John Leguizamo
#46. Think of your windshield as an energy source for your brain. Use pictures (the walls of many talent hotbeds are cluttered with photos and posters of their stars) or, better, video. One idea: Bookmark a few YouTube videos, and watch them before you practice, or at night before you go to bed.
Daniel Coyle
#47. A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.
Kelly Wearstler
#49. The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again ... just singing one song, the national anthem.
Hugh Jackman
#50. My makeup is usually left over from the night before.
Kesha
#52. The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.
Michael Hastings
#53. Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
G.K. Chesterton
#54. Another morning feeling as shattered as I felt the night before.
Anonymous
#55. I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds and thousands and millions of people. London, London - I hate you. I picked myself up and got ready.
Tracey Emin
#56. If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
George R R Martin
#57. The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.
Robert Longo
#58. Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No matter what the day has been like, I drop and give myself 20 every single night.
Tamara Taylor
#59. When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
Pat Conroy
#60. As we approach the millennium with sort of the idea that society is going to start spiraling into chaos, I'd love to be making jokes about that. Who wants to miss out on that? If the world is going to end, I want to be there the night before, goofing off.
Jon Stewart
#61. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement C. Moore
#62. But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?
Eugene Levy
#63. I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored ... and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#64. If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at night; sometimes, I've looked back at things I wrote the night before, and realized they were no good at all.
Mark-Anthony Turnage
#66. I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.
Debby Ryan
#67. I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
Vidal Sassoon
#68. Some things are not meant to be, Leighton Atwood had said the night before. But if they were not meant to be, then why did the forces of destiny keep bringing them together?
Sherry Thomas
#69. Dad never missed a day of work, regardless of how late he had been out the night before. The intensity of Dad's dependability, I have always thought, has something to do with an almost genetically present sense of duty in people who work the land.
Melanie Hoffert
#70. The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
Anne Lamott
#71. Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.
Gene Tunney
#72. My spray-tan woman is amazing. She comes to my house at 10 o'clock the night before a shoot. The results are so brown, flawless, and natural. It's just weird because my natural skin color is very white, almost whitish yellow.
Christine Teigen
#73. I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.
George Mikes
#74. I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.
Compay Segundo
#75. She sat at the table with a cup of tea, looking plump and angelic as always, no sign of having lost any sleep the night before.
Maggie Stiefvater
#76. What I mean is, one can't help one's fears. The question isn't if you're a fellow who cries in the night before a big engagement - and I knew a damned brave man who did exactly that, regularly. It's whether you pick yourself up the next day.
K.J. Charles
#77. His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.
Holly Black
#78. People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
David Petraeus
#79. I looked around. This house only the night before had been a home, and serves as a storage locker for memories that I could barely remember and a bunch of things I'd rather forget.
Laurie Notaro
#80. She had rushed to him like some stupid, lust-struck idiot, playing right into his hands. That fucking note ... That Goddamn gift ... The way he had taken her the night before and the things he said ... All a part of his game.
Ella Dominguez
#81. Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.
Zac Efron
#82. You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
Mick Jagger
#83. In the morning I brush my teeth with hope, and at night before bed I brush them with defeat. Both are mint flavored, so I try not to get them mixed up.
Jarod Kintz
#84. They'd shared more than memories the night before. What they'd experienced was a communion.
Josephine Angelini
#85. I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.
John Knowles
#86. The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead
#87. Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
Catherine Deneuve
#88. The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.
Lorrie Moore
#89. On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
John C. Hawkes
#90. The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
Randy Schekman
#91. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
L.M. Montgomery
#92. In TV, you just have to decide the night before exactly how you're going to say it and stick with that. You can't kick it around; you haven't got time.
Kevin Whately
#93. Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression.
Tim Sandlin
#94. Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult self is always beginning. You are always learning how to say good-bye to whoever you were at the dinner table the night before.
Alison Espach
#95. She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.
Kate Morton
#96. Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty.
Virginia Woolf
#97. At a party, I am the kind of girl who will wait until the end of the night before I really get going. I'm a little anti-social at first, but I'm not immune to dancing on tables either.
Emily VanCamp
#98. Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can ... Have I done enough?
Lyndon B. Johnson
#99. I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
Bobby Knight
#100. I bet when Winston Churchill was writing his memoirs he didn't keep getting interrupted by two blokes bawling that the ties they took off the night before had mysteriously disappeared, and demanding I find them, seeing as I was the one last seen tied up with them.
Gillibran Brown
