When The City Sleeps Quotes

#1. Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will.

Lionel Johnson

#2. If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Paul Beatty

#3. I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

Frances Farmer

#4. America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

Paul Broun

#5. Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

Ban Ki-moon

#7. Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

Li-Young Lee

#8. It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov

#9. This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

Grace Lee Boggs

#10. You want to go somewhere?' he asked.
'Like now? its late.'
'isn't las vegas the city that never sleeps?'
'i think that's new york.'
'right. this is sin city.

Olivia Cunning

#11. All human suffering is a variation on this theme - trying to control the waves, trying to control our present-moment experience so it conforms to our ideas and concepts of how it should be. If you want to suffer, compare this moment with your image of how it should be! I

Jeff Foster

#12. Concentration is born on the practice court ... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

Martina Navratilova

#13. L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

Jimmy Fallon

#14. What prayer most often changes is the wickedness and the hardness of our own hearts. That alone would be reason enough to pray, even if none of the other reasons were valid or true.

R.C. Sproul

#15. I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

Idris Elba

#16. The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.

Carlos Mencia

#17. New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

Margot Robbie

#18. Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.
Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.
Cordelia: I stand corrected.
Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

Mutant Enemy Joss Whedon

#19. His star will forever shine.

Bert Convy

#20. The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#21. when we're done, I'll be where the night never stops
cradling a bruise that's shaped like you
wondering why sleep never came to me
wondering how I still dreamed

Alicen Grey

#22. Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

Khalil Gibran

#23. I am Melody Malone, with ice in my heart and a kiss on my lips. In the city that never sleeps and should never blink, mysteries are my business.

Melody Malone

#24. The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#25. [On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

Karen Kijewski

#26. Harlem sleeps late.

Jacob M. Appel

#27. The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained.

Zig Ziglar

#28. From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.

Bao Shu

#29. I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

Frank Sinatra

#30. New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

Patricia Marx

#31. I stood at the end of the street, catching snow in my mouth, and laughed softly to myself as I realized that without my insomnia and anxiety and pain I'd never have been awake to see the city that never sleeps asleep and blanketed up for winter. I smiled and felt silly, but in the best possible way.

Jenny Lawson

#32. We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

George P. Shultz