Up All Night Quotes

• When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Sleep

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

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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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• Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Hurt, Sex

  "L. M. Boyd" by Boyd, "The Sioux City Journal", p. A17, April 20, 1981.

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dog, Night, Giving

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• I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.

  Steven Wright

  Tired, Night, Trying

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• Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

  Olivia Munn

  Night, Insomnia, Figuring It

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• Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Hate, Fall

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• That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Good Night, Insomnia, Long

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• When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

  Kelly Link

  Night, Long, All Night

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• There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

  Kevin Ashton

  Night, Overnight Success, All Night

  "How to Fly a Horse — The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery". Book by Kevin Ashton, www.businessinsider.com. January 20, 2015.

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• We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sleep, Night, Marketing

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• Two committees in the house were up all night long trying to get a version of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act passed. House Republicans are just fighting tooth and nail to pass it in the House, to try to get it into the Senate, to try to make it then so that the Senate will get on board. But you know who one of the Republican senators is who`s not on board with this anymore? Senator Tom Cotton.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Night, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

  Anne McCaffrey

  Mean, Night, All Night

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• We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Writing, Heart, Night

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew it was a special moment, but something was always wrong. I wished I'd been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling - exactly what was so important to me - they didn't understand.

  Julie Delpy

  Beautiful, Night, People

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• I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Jobs, Couple, Mean

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

  Spike Lee

  Night, Yesterday, May

  "Fictional character: Bleek". "Mo' Better Blues", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).

  Markus Zusak

  Morning, Brother, Memories

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• You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.

  Julie Orringer

  Reading, Book, Heart

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• I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Night, People, Dating

  "5 Questions with Tracee Ellis Ross on 'Reed Between the Lines' & a 'Girlfriends' Reunion?". Interview with Brinti Danielle, www.essence.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  Edgar Wright

  Art, Night, Light

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

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• Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Night, Diaries

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• It just isn't the way you've been told. Let me give you an example: Time makes no sense. It really doesn't apply to me; it doesn't fit. My hair gets thin and I can't stay up all night the way I used to. But I don't change.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Night, Hair, Giving

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• I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.

  Liv Tyler

  Father, Party, Sleep

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