Tonight Quotes - Page 16

• On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Thinking, Views

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• I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

  Barbra Streisand

  Hurt, Feet, Style

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• Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

  Sara Teasdale

  Sad, Broken Heart, Dream

  Sara Teasdale, “The Kiss”

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• I've never been one for doing remixes. Then I've gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I'd rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.

  Carrie Underwood

  Country, Matter, Pops

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• The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

  Dwyane Wade

  Night, Nba, Games

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• I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

  Steven Wright

  Years, Three, Looks

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• One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Differences, Knowing, Bed

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.

  Stephen Colbert

  Cake, America, Willing

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• Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

  Gaston Leroux

  Soul, Gaston, Opera

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• The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm.

  Robert Browning

  Rain, Heart, Lakes

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Lonely, Morning

  Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) sonnet 19

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• What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Sticks, Bigs

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• My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.

  John Berger

  Heart, Years, Clothes

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic, moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, "Who? Who?"

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Night, Light

  "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.

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• Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

  Robert Harris

  Art, Worry, Spirit

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sleep, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.279, Penguin

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• Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Song, Book, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.

  Louise Rennison

  Numbers, Mad, News

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• A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kings, Loneliness, Boys

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.81, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Giving, Devil

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home.

  Sylvia Plath

  Confused, Home, Tired

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.184, Anchor

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• I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Agony, Drunk

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• If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Morning, Guy, Tomorrow

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• It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Money, Ireland And The Irish

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.288, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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