Night Sounds Quotes

#1. From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting ... On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

E.B. White

#2. Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

Jo Brand

#3. I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night's sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. I think of the hundreds of lights dancing across the night sky. "I knew you were watching. I know it sounds stupid, but I felt you with me, and then when you sent that letter describing that night ... " I drop off, unable to find the right words to explain the emotion.

Katie McGarry

#5. I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists ...

John Geddes

#6. Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.

T.C. Boyle

#7. Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#9. I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Stella McCartney

#10. It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can't tell you how many people have had this syndrome ... the 'Old Hag Syndrome.' Apparently, there's this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her - she'll pop up. She's out there.

George Noory

#11. Everything seems different at night. Defined. Beyond the window, the world is full of shadows, all pressed together in harsh relief, somehow sharper than they ever were in daylight.
Sounds seem sharper,too, at night. A whistle. A crack. A child's whisper.

Victoria Schwab

#12. It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

Stockard Channing

#13. The guy snarled out a string of profanity describing his night with Conn's mother.

"Sounds about right," Conn said, but Matt didn't miss the glint in Conn's eye. "She's been dead for twenty years, but dead's probably the only way you get laid.

Anne Calhoun

#14. The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.

Walt Whitman

#15. How about we never talk about what happened and why I feel the way I feel. We just pretend that everything is fine and I just scrub myself red every night, allowing my mind and body to retreat into oblivion. Yup sounds like the perfect plan.

Astrid Lee Miles

#16. The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch'd with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treasons, Strategems, and Spoils, The Motions of his Mind are dull as Night, And his Affections dark as Erebus: Let no such Man be trusted.17 Copying a passage

Kevin J. Hayes

#17. The truth is, Lang," Angel whispered, "your brother hangs the stars in my goddamn sky. It sounds stupid and maybe corny, but when he's around me, it's like the night's full of light. So yeah, I love him. I love him pretty hard.

Rhys Ford

#18. There's a big, wet, knuckle-dragger in your kitchen with a gun aimed at my head." "Sounds like my idea of a Saturday night," Liv said.

Mercy Celeste

#19. That doesn't sound like a school trivia night," said Mrs. Patty Ponder to Marie Antoinette. "That sounds like a riot." The cat didn't respond. She was dozing on the couch and found school trivia nights to be trivial.

Liane Moriarty

#20. It wasn't about who had dibs now or who was sitting next to whom in the cinema. The game had changed; or rather, it wasn't a game at all anymore. It was a matter of making it through the night, which is often harder than it sounds, and always a very individual business.

Amor Towles

#21. Even at midnight the city groans in the heat. We have had no rain for quite a while. The traffic sounds below ride the night air in waves of trigonometry, the cosine of a siren, the tangent of a sigh, a system, an axis, a logic to this chaos, yes.

Lorrie Moore

#22. You are the night."
"I am the night," I repeated.
"You are the night."
I cocked my head, sending him a questioning look. "I am the night?"
"Jane!"
"Why is it that when you say my name, it sounds like a curse word?

Molly Harper

#23. A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

Helen Oyeyemi

#24. Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Count Basie

#25. Lilith came to Longinus in the night, as she often did, and the darkness of the cave was filled with the lustful sounds of their passionate couplings. Afterwards, as he lay back with his eyes closed, she ran her cool fingers playfully across his chest and whispered honeyed words in his ear.

Alan Kinross

#26. Did you think you could treat me like shit at a dance, then sneak into my room in the middle of the night and tell me that I'm a troll with magical powers, and I'd just be like, yeah, that sounds right.

Amanda Hocking

#27. Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

Little Richard

#28. The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!

Tom DeLonge

#29. To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

Henry Rollins

#30. I can do this all night. Because you make me feel this way. You, above me, riding me, and making those sounds that I love. You're the only person I've ever let go with, the only woman who knows the real me.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#31. THERE ARE MEMORIES we cannot escape. We take them with us wherever we go, however far, like it or not. They pursue us or accompany us in good times and in bad. We smell their scents. We hear their sounds. We delight in them or dread them. By day and by night. My

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#32. The belfry of St Cloud slowly emitted ten strokes from its broad sonorous jaws. There was something melancholy in that voice of bronze, which thus breathed its lamentations in the night. But each of those sounds, which told the hour he sighed for, vibrated harmoniously in the heart of the young man.

Alexandre Dumas

#33. And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#34. [ ... ]there was always a part of the human mind that was prepared to entertain such notions, particularly at night, in the world of shadows, when there were sounds that one could not understand and when each one of us was in some sense alone.

Alexander McCall Smith

#35. the nights would be orphaned
without the sound of crickets chirping.

Sanober Khan

#36. The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another planet.

Margaret Millar

#37. So I woke, I listened, and I heard the small sounds of a wood at night, the things moving, the claws in the dead leaves, the wind's soft sighs.

Bernard Cornwell

#38. It's way too long and I gave up on it. Abandoning forever an innocent child to a hostile and unforgiving land. Sometimes I still hear him crying late at night. He sounds exactly like a malfunctioning air conditioner.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#39. When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it's one of the most frightening sounds you'll ever hear.

Tim Cope

#40. Like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head.

Mark Haddon

#41. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

Frank Herbert

#42. Every night was a somber, adults-only slumber party - no giggles or whispers, just lots of coughing and farting and snoring and groaning, the sounds and smells of too many stressed-out of people packed into too small a place.

Tom Perrotta

#43. It sounds crazy, but I promise you it's true; wearing red lipstick really can change the course of a night out

Minnie Mortimer

#44. I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Heather Graham

#45. Sounds - possibly musical - heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being.

H.P. Lovecraft

#46. In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.

Warren Eyster

#47. If you think God looks only one way or sounds only one way or is only one way, you're going to look right past Me night and day. You'll spend your whole life looking for God and not finding Her. Because you're looking for a Him.

Neale Donald Walsch

#48. Just for the record, a nymphomaniac girlfriend might be great material for imagination, but in real life, trust me, having a nympho in your bed night after night is not as fantastic as it sounds. At worst, they are sick; at best they are exhausting, and in both cases they wear you out.

Carol Vorvain

#49. If ghosts had heads, my walls would be covered with mounted ghost heads. Okay, that sounds pretty scary and kind of gross, but anyway, I could handle a little late-night fright by myself. I

J.L. Bryan

#50. In Detroit, it was an average night to go and hear the Stooges, Parliament-Funkadelic and the MC5 on the same show. We were all into the 'Free Jazz' movement, the musics of Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra; and experimenting with guitar sounds, and trying different beats, and pushing the rhythm farther...

Wayne Kramer

#51. The night was windy, full of tree sounds. The moon was gone and there was rain, so fine that it was only a tingle on the skin.

Marilynne Robinson

#52. I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.

Shelby Lynne

#53. No, my girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.'
'Bummer. Sounds like you need a different girlfriend.

Rainbow Rowell

#54. We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices

& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us.

Brian Andreas

#55. We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices
& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us.

Brian Andreas

#56. The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

Ariel Pink

#57. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony

William Shakespeare

#58. Craw didn't just grunt - he made sounds like barnyard animals going to bed at night. The more frustrated and/or inarticulate he felt, the bigger the animal. This particular grunt sounded like a constipated cow.

Amy Lane

#59. All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.

John Burroughs

#60. As boring as it sounds, I don't feel any different than I did before the 'House of Night.'

Kristin Cast

#61. It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.

Marisha Pessl

#62. What do you want me to do, Peter?"
"Chuck the ball back to me if it runs out of the circle. Not obviously. Just exercise your devastating talent for keeping to the point and speaking the truth."
"That sounds easy."
"It is
for you. That's what I love you for."
Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers

#63. BRANDON: How about caramel popcorn balls? Yummy too! NIKKI: Popcorn balls?! Are you kidding me? Sounds way too complicated! BRANDON: Nope. Super EZ! Even I can make them and I'm a cruddy cook. I made some last night. NIKKI:

Rachel Renee Russell

#64. I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

Jackson Rathbone

#65. It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory.

Zach Gilford

#66. Blake missed the primitive lifestyle. Celeste baked bread in soup cans, and together they baked the bread of passionate love every night to the sounds of the forest. That was sustenance.

Rudy Ross