Bedtime Quotes - Page 6

• The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

  Gregory Maguire

  Doe, Wickedness, Breakfast

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• White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Blue, Purple, Yellow

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, p.19, Delacorte Press

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• What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?

  Libba Bray

  Memories, Home, Dark

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Aging, Dear

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Epic, Cities, People

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

  Robert Munsch

  Inspiring, Baby, Love You

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• I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

  Veronica Roth

  Fire, Lasts, Tobias

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• This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

  Johnny Christ

  Past, Men, Scary

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• I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

  Anita Diament

  Giving Up, Reading, Writing

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• Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Ego, Promise

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• Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Talking, Giving, Jazz

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Literature

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• I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Thinking, Frightened

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• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  Walter Mosley

  Black, World, Mediocre

  "In his latest mystery, Walter Mosley takes Easy to new turf, to '60s San Francisco. Far out, man." by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2005.

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• Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.

  Florence S. Jacobsen

  Dream, Prayer, Moving

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• And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

  Brian Lumley

  Lifetime, Certain, Findings

  "Necroscope: Looking Back". www.brianlumley.com.

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• Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

  Terry McMillan

  Writing, Willing

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• Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Publicity, Promotion, True Things

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• You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Future, Past, Two

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

  Don DeLillo

  Jail, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Kids, Forever, Stuff

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

  Alexander Fleming

  Health, Helping, Common

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• Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

  J. K. Rowling

  Music, Eye, Magic

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• The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

  Shannon Fife

  Retirement, Children, Humorous

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• I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reading, Stories, Lasts

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