Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Raban

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

Narendra Modi

I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.

Jackson Rathbone

I’m all about nightlife. I live during the night.

Harvey Mackay

Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

Henry Rollins

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

Henry Rollins

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Henry Rollins

Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.

Henry Beston

We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.

Henry Beston

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

Hedi Slimane

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

Henry David Thoreau

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

Henry David Thoreau

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

Henry David Thoreau

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

Mahatma Gandhi

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Manny Pacquiao

As for me, I always train for 12 rounds just in case. I don't train for three, four, one, or 10 rounds. I have to train for 12 because you never know what will happen that night.

Mandy Moore

I wanna be with you, if only for a night to be the one who's in your arms to hold you tight. I wanna be with you, there's nothing left to say.

Malcolm Muggeridge

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Mahatma Gandhi

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

John C. Maxwell

Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

James Joyce

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

James Joyce

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

James Joyce

Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

James Russell Lowell

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

James Gray

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

Lamar Odom

There's pressure every night to be the best on the court. I put a lot of pressure on myself. Pressure is part of the game. It is also part of life. I want to prove I can do the work and be a success off the court as well as on it.

Libba Bray

The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

Libba Bray

Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.

Gary Clark, Jr.

You're gonna know my name by the end of the night

Friedrich Schiller

Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.

Johnny Winter

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Johnny Damon

I blame myself every night we lose.

John Bonham

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.