Noon Quotes - Page 9

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Long, Silence

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• A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Memorable, Hot

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• One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.

  Margaret George

  Life, Darkness, Storm

  Margaret George (2011). “Elizabeth I: The Novel”, p.452, Penguin

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• morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Pain, Moving

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• Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.

  Richard Peck

  Morning, Children, Book

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• There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.

  Frank McCourt

  Morning, Night, Use

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

  Mark Twain

  Sea, Clothes, Stolen

  Mark Twain (2008). “Roughing It: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.249, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires." "Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Morning, Thinking, Two

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• Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Talking, Long

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces. Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon, that means we're inconsolable. Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.

  Richard Siken

  Mean, Apples, Light

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• They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

  James M. Cain

  The Postman Always Rings Twice ch. 1 (1934)

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• Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stars, Heart, Self

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.52, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.

  Libba Bray

  Morning, Trouble, Wells

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• ...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.

  Bruno Schulz

  Fire, Two, Piano

  Bruno Schulz (1963). “Cinnamon Shops: And Other Stories”

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• What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Wall, Thinking, Overcoming

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan

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• I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out." Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy. Dang, I'm good.

  James Patterson

  Past, Evil, Enemy

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• Only because I’m not a morning person. (Joe) And you’re not a night person either. Face it, babe. You’ve only got two good minutes a day. The minute before noon and the minute right after. (Tee)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Night, Two

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Spring, Sunset

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• I just love the gifts you bring me for lunch. Other girls get diamonds. Me? I get mayhem and blood – and all before noon. Thanks, Tate. (Simone)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Blood, Lunch

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• There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Reading, Jealous

  Charles Lamb (1894). “The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia”, New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company

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• I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beautiful, Light, Sea

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Flower, Night, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.153, Vintage

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• The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Doctors, Two

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (2015). “Oliver Twist, Volume 2 (of 3) (Illustrations)”, p.48, RICHARD BENTLEY

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• If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

  Suzanne Collins

  Team, Coffee, Hair

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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• No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Darkness, Ignorant

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