Quotes About All Nighters

#1. Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

Evan Bayh

#2. We've tried to regulate things so that you at least get to go home at night and not have to pull all-nighters and see them on weekends and things. So, you know, like everything in life, it's a balance.

Pete Docter

#3. Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Luis Bunuel

#4. If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

Gertrude Atherton

#5. You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you.

Jerry Lewis

#6. In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Thomas Sprat

#7. While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

Nick Denton

#8. I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

B.B. King

#9. I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

#10. I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.

Harvey MacKay

#11. One Week Get tussled about by Bangkok's chaos, then cruise up to Sukhothai to tour the quiet old ruins. Continue north to Chiang Mai, an easygoing cultural city. Climb up the mountain range to Pai for mountain scenery and bluesy late-nighters.

China Williams