Nighttime Quotes

• For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Nice, Events, Stills

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• A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

  John Hodgman

  Clock, Used, Sundials

  John Hodgman (2012). “More Information Than You Require”, p.268, Penguin

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• I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

  Bill Watterson

  Dark, Thinking, Imagine

  "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1992.

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• Night, when words fade and things come alive.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Alive, Fades

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ideas, Giving, Most Inspiring

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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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• The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

  Tracy Letts

  Shade, Window

  Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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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• I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Brain, Mind, Doe

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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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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• Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
  nourishing Night!
  Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
  Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Stars, Night

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.27, NYU Press

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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, Night Time

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

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• Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.

  Erika Slezak

  Real, Successful, Years

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• And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Sex, Night

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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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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• On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

  Ted Shackelford

  Moving, Development, Stuff

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• The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and its partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

  Deidre Hall

  Television, Nine, Facts

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

  Michael Zaslow

  Actors, Night Time, Episodes

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• the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

  Amelia Barr

  Night, Soul, Body

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.120, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• Hee hee hee! You should've seen the look on your face!" "If mom and dad cared about me at all, they'd buy me some infra-red nighttime vision goggles.

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Dad, Vision

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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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• I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Buddy

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• I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sleep, Night, Nocturnal

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• The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

  David Levithan

  Silence, Peaceful, Darkness

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