Quotes About Burning The Midnight Oil

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

Abel Ferrara

#4. As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

Fay Weldon

#5. Look up, greet sparks of fire with salted eyes,
For he's a burning atmospheric sigh:
One blaze of liquid flame on midnight sky,
Soft orbital decay, and last goodbye.

Alan James Roll

#6. It's more the way a tough guy who doesn't like cats might look at a kitten and notice for the first time that it can be kind of cute. Sort of a reluctant, private acknowledgment that maybe cats aren't all bad.

Susan Ee

#7. It's a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

Frederic Goudy

#9. You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

Elayne Boosler

#10. Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

Guy Claxton