Famous Quotes & Sayings

e. e. cummings

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

Duke Snider

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. If I were to get paid a million, I'd feel that I should sweep out the stadium every night after I finished playing the game.

Drew Roy

I am a big fan of the night shoots, as tough as they are, because they have almost a camping trip feel.

Donald Trump

There are plenty of dates that are dead nights that you could do. There are plenty evenings that are dead nights that you could have the debates in.

Donald Trump

I had my appendix out when I was 11, and that was the last time I was in a hospital. That was a one-night deal. So I've spent basically one night in a hospital.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

Adam Sandler

Eat turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong.

Adam Sandler

If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Schneider and Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this Click actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.

Aby Rosen

I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, I spent a night with interesting people.

Ani Difranco

There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Andrew McMahon

It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

Amy Ray

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

Amy Poehler

In my twenties I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated. Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play Ping-Pong all night. It's bad for almost everything else.

Amy Poehler

I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.

Allen Tate

Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.

Anthony Jeselnik

I let a friend set me up on a blind date. It was a disaster. She ended up being a burn victim. By the end of the night.

Anthony Jeselnik

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.

Ann Coulter

Either we're removing a dictator who currently has plans to fund terrorism against American citizens or -- if Bush is completely wrong and Eleanor Clift is completely right -- we're just removing a dictator who plans to terrorize a lot of people in the region, but not Americans specifically. Even for someone like me, who doesn't want America to be the world's policeman, the risk of precipitous action against Saddam Hussein doesn't keep me up at night.

Ann Coulter

Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

Andrea Gibson

We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night...

Andrea Dworkin

There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

Andrea Dworkin

Men use the night to erase us.

Amanda Burton

I have sleepless nights before press days.

Amanda Bynes

I want to be known for the work I've done, as opposed to where I go on Saturday nights...

Alphonse de Lamartine

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.

Aeschylus

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.

Alberto Manguel

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The year is dying in the night.