Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Mann

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

If I spend at least a night in a U.S. jail, there will be problems with state secrets,

Rick Carlisle

If he's not able to play on the second night, then we just won't play him.

Giorgio Vasari

Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!"

Geraldo Rivera

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live

J. M. Coetzee

The barbarians come out at night.

J. M. Coetzee

One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation.

J. K. Rowling

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

H. L. Mencken

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

Grace Kelly

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

Jack London

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

George Herbert

To a great night, a great Lanthorne.

George Herbert

Praise day at night, and life at the end.

Gene Kelly

I had been asked to open a nightclub in Atlantic City. They offered me a ridiculous amount of money. They literally overpaid me. So I did one show a night. Then they asked me back by popular demand. So I went back. Then I said, "To hell with this." I was only doing it for the money, and I was doing easy routines. It's just too much work to get up every day and practice.

Gene Kelly

There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

I can still see that dog. I still have nightmares about that night.

Peter Cosgrove

He's not a 40-minute a night guy, no one is at that level. But he has done that on occasion.

Jack Hunter

Collin has had plenty of nights like that.

Hunter S. Thompson

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

Liam Gallagher

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Yogi Berra

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

Walter Benjamin

Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

Rick Barnes

We had a tough night shooting the ball.

Helena Christensen

We can sit all night talking about girls.

We worked on everything we did poorly the other night (against UCLA).

A. J. McLean

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

A. E. van Vogt

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

Marcus Vick

We got the win, so it doesn't matter, ... But otherwise, the three interceptions made my night terrible. I don't like that at all.

Rob Schneider

We had to kind of reinvent it, ... Saturday Night Live.

We wanted tonight to be senior night. It's Royal.