All Night Quotes - Page 11

• Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!

  Rick Riordan

  Smart, Mean, Frustration

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• Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.).

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Expectations, Events

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.5, Vintage

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• I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I’ve met some great guys here, but I didn’t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don’t feel like they are real friends. I haven’t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. It’s kind of hard to beat that.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Growing Up, Real, Home

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• It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Liars, Thinking, Night

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Fall, Reading, Night

  Kaye Gibbons (2012). “Ellen Foster”, p.11, Algonquin Books

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• Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

  Henry James

  Dream, Believe, Night

  Henry James (2015). “Roderick Hudson”, p.45, Booklassic

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• Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Girl, Crazy, Night

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• Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Stars, Dark

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.368, Penguin

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• An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Night, Long Ago

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• The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Stars, Lying, Fall

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• If we go now, there's no coming back. You're mine all night." Her eyes flashed. "Promise?" That was it. Jack grabbed her hand and pulled her off the dance floor, toward the main entrance of the tent.

  Julie James

  Eye, Night, Hands

  Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.183, Penguin

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• I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said. Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked. 'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth. And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Ice, Ideas

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• There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

  Harper Lee

  Morning, Night, Light

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

  Charles Portis

  Night, Play, Records

  Charles Portis (1999). “Norwood”, p.77, The Overlook Press

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• This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!

  Dr. Seuss

  Night, Feet, Bed

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• slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails

  Tom Waits

  Night, Men, Holy Grail

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• I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

  Nick Flynn

  Kissing, Reflection, Night

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fighting, Night, Play

  Dr. Seuss (1963). “Hop on Pop”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Hate, Fall

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• But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Moon, Night

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.154, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Night, Glasses, Our Generation

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Sleep

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

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