Night Time Quotes

• The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

  Benjamin Britten

  Inspiring, Sleep, Writing

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• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Night, Light

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 48), 1949.

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• Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Memorable, Writing, Night

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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

  Michael Zaslow

  Actors, Episodes, Nighttime

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• Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dog, Night, Wish

  "Silver Blaze" (1892)

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• You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

  Norman Wisdom

  Dog, Legs, Cigarette

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Elements, Gigs

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• In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Night, Eight, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

  Francoise Sagan

  Night, Sea, Goes On

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• For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

  Charles Dickens

  Good Morning, Beauty, Time

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.207

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  I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

  Mark Ryden

  Time, Art, Sleep

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• Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2791, e-artnow

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• Who knows but the world may end tonight

  Robert Browning

  Time, Tonight, World

  "The Last Ride Together" l. 22 (1855)

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  There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Wise Man's Fear". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, www.abebooks.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Sleep, Dark

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Story Collection: Six Marvellous Stories Including The BFG and Five Other Stories”, p.533, Penguin UK

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• So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Night, Ideas

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• Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

  Kenny Rogers

  Work, Night, Lovers

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• Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey.

  George Harrison

  Morning, Night, Darkness

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• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, America, Car

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.151, Penguin UK

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• I thank the Lord for the night time.

  Neil Diamond

  Religious, Night, Religion

  Song: I Thank The Lord For The Night Time

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• So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

  Maurice Gibb

  Drinking, Night, Groups

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Morning, Night, Wind

  Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.229, tredition

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