Tonight Quotes - Page 27

• If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

  Count Basie

  Music, Night, Play

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• If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

  Betty Carter

  Music, Bird, Jazz

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• You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciation, Regret, Procrastination

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• His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

  Jesse Jackson

  Slave Ships, America, Diversity

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• Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, Prayer, People

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• I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.

  Zac Rinaldo

  Hockey

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• And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.

  Nick Frost

  Home, Ambition, People

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• Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.

  Sophie Edington

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don't let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good. Let the one who is ever-new and ever-fresh awake instead.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Morning, Sleep

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• We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Looks, May

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• So many gay jokes tonight about (James) Franco. Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay now. Is that why the rest of you guys are so aggressively fat and dirty? You think if you read one book and take a shower, dicks are going to just fly into your face.

  Aziz Ansari

  Dirty, Book, Gay

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• If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  New York, Apples, Hollywood

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• If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

  Billy Joel

  Writing, Bye, Popular Song

  Song: For The Longest Time, Album: An Innocent Man, 1983

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• Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

  James M. Barrie

  Prayer, Language, Repent

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.71, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Ears, Orchestra

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• Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Morning, Rain, Glasses

  1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.

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• You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

  Alfred Jarry

  Ugly, Company

  Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Cameron Rogers, Robert Green Ingersoll (1927). “Colonel Bob Ingersoll: a biographical narrative of the great American orator and agnostic”

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• I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Goodbye, Government, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  Fall, Rivers, Forever

  "The Picket-Guard" l. 41 (1861) See Remarque 1

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• Be on your toes tonight - or I'll be on yours tomorrow.

  Fred Waring

  Toes, Tomorrow

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• Luck, be a lady tonight.

  Frank Loesser

  Luck

  Title of song (1950)

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• Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning

  George Carlin

  Morning, Dark, Light

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• "Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said."You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?""But you don't even have my phone number," he said."I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other."

  John Green

  Real, Book, Eye

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.29, Penguin

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