Night Quotes - Page 34

• I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

  Jim Garrison

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

  Cole Porter

  White, Mad, Heaven

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• Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.

  Dany Laferriere

  Sleep, Making Love, Naked

  Dany Laferrière (2010). “How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired”, p.74, Douglas & McIntyre

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• Who can sleep on the night that God became man?

  Edith Stein

  Sleep, Men

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• Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Different, Towns

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• Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
  Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
  Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
  Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
  and
  History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Rainbow, Psychology, Body

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  Fiona Shaw

  Heart, Film, Stage

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

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• I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Want, Golfers

  "Learning to smile" by Nick Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.

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• There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

  Garet Garrett

  Song, Thinking, Singing

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'

  Garet Garrett

  Lying, Voice, Doe

  Garet Garrett (1961). “Rise of Empire”

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• In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

  Bruno Schulz

  Father, Play, House

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• Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you won’t even have to tell yourself, because you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, “Take me away.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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• So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

  Dave Matthews

  Doctors, Work Out, Laughing

  "Live at Luther College". Live album by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, January 19, 1999.

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• In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train

  Bruce Catton

  Morning, Differences, Waiting

  Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

  Alan Shearer

  Home, Mirrors, People

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• As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  The End Of The Day, Camels, Burden

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms.

  Francois Jacob

  Impact, Competition, Needs

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• This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.

  Marcel Desailly

  Beautiful, Men, Games

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• Similarly, when you lose yourconsciousness, when you go to sleep at night or when you're anesthetized, youdon't really think that you're really going to be losing your mind.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Sleep, Thinking, Mind

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• If the pro abortionists were not in control of the press, I am convinced that not only would the debate on abortion be over by now (have we really even had a national debate?), but the Pro-Life side would be victorious because we would have seen the pictures every night on television of what is taking place behind the doors of the abortion clinics and hospitals.

  Cal Thomas

  Doors, Pro Life, Abortion

  Cal Thomas (1990). “Uncommon Sense: A Layman's Briefing Book on the Issues”, Wolgemuth & Hyatt Pub

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• Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Country, Clouds, Gathering

  Appeal to citizens of Russia to oppose the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, August 19, 1991.

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• One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
  With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
  Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
  Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
  And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
  To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

  John Ciardi

  Stars, Father, Space

  John Ciardi (1969). “The Achievement of John Ciardi: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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• Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

  Kalle Lasn

  Coins, Honest, Joyful

  "Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must". Book by Kalle Lasn, 1999.

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• Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

  Rick Kennedy

  New York, Cities, Safe

  Rick Kennedy (1998). “Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer”, p.10, Stone Bridge Press

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• Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub.

  Patricia Barber

  Inspire, Soul, Desire

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