One Night Quotes - Page 16

• My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'

  Howie Mandel

  Laughter, Night, Candid Camera

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

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• One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

  Holly Black

  Night, Giving, Ask Me

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• ...But he was a good landlord. When my heater stopped working in mid-December, it took him only two weeks to get it fixed. Of course, it took me knocking on his door in need of a warm place to sleep to get it that way, but one night on his sofa, where I’d suddenly developed night terrors and epilepsy, and that puppy was running like a Mercedes the next day. It was awesome.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Sleep, Night

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.31, Macmillan

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• One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Morning, Book

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interview with Peter H. Stone, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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• The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Stupid, Home

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• I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Believe, Night

  Jane Austen (2015). “Annotated Pride and Prejudice with English Grammar Exercises: by Jane Austen (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.329, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

  Mindy Kaling

  Opportunity, Night, Might

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.155, Crown/Archetype

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• So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Want, Lasts

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• I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Night, Wind, Tree

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.21, A&C Black

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• A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.

  Hank Williams III

  Son, Night, Cash Flow

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• The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mistake, Night, If There Is A God

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Dream, Lying

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.951, Delphi Classics

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