Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Bach

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.

Robert Frost

I am one who has been acquainted with the night

Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

Robert Frost

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

Robert Frost

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

Robert Blair

When it draws near to witching time of night.

Robert Bly

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

Robert Benchley

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

Rick Mercer

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

Richard McCabe

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.

Richard Eder

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.

Richard Dreyfuss

Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

Renee Fleming

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

Thornton Wilder

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

Thornton Wilder

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

Thomas de Quincey

All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

Robert Barry

I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.

Rob Lowe

Last night, we were all watching Harry Potter in bed, and I thought, 'This isn't something you have when you're single, that's for sure.'

Red Skelton

You know, last night it was so cold that my pillow and my sheets fought to see who got under the blankets first.

I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.

Sammy Hagar

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

Tariq Ramadan

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day

T. S. Eliot

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

T. S. Eliot

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

T. S. Eliot

Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

Sylvia Browne

Nightmares are releases.

Sylvia Earle

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

Scott Westerfeld

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Scott Adams

Your shower is ready - I turned it on last night.

Ray Romano

I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night.

Ray Kroc

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Ray Comfort

If we knew we were to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night, would we have to step up our evangelistic program, or could we in all good conscience carry on just as we are?

Raphael Saadiq

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.