Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Chanakya

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

David Letterman

What a big night that is going to be -- not only for us, not only for Oprah, but for Broadway.

Camille Claudel

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!

Caitlin Moran

I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

Bryan Batt

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

Carl Jung

I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

Aya Cash

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

Avril Lavigne

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

Bob Hope

Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.

Aileen Wuornos

People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance because they think you took the easy way out, when no one would imagine the willpower it took to do what we do, walking the streets night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up.

Blythe Danner

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

Bernie Mac

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young

Our shots just weren't falling. We had an off night.

People are used to not paying for things on TV. They're used to watching Saturday Night Live for free.

Deborah Kerr

Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?

Any organization that can pull off what they pulled off on September 11, you think about the organization and the planning and the resources that went into that, clearly, they have some organizational capabilities that aren't going to go away over night

A filmmaker's worst nightmare is screening his film and there's no one in the theater to see it.

Pete Carroll

It was a championship night in all ways. These two teams battled until the finish.

(The storm) will start winding down Tuesday night but it won't be over until Wednesday.

I spent (Tuesday) night with the Three Stooges,

Neil Finn

I've been thinking about him every single night I've been on stage. I'm gutted I will never play with him again.

Cliff Floyd

It would have been like 'Wow!' ... I've always wanted to see this place on a night like that.

The whole state of Sunday night television was much different than it is today.

Buddy Holly

This is one night that can never be repeated again, ... You'll never see all these people, all these stars on the same stage. This is phenomenal.

That's when the killings occur, is at night.

That tip-in was big. That was probably his career-high (in scoring), too. It's been a different person every night for us; somebody always seems to step up.

Leigh Steinberg

That night was a very special time to him.

All and all, it was a successful night.

You spend a night shift every night for weeks, you get to know someone.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.