Up All Night Quotes - Page 2

• I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone.

  Joseph Arthur

  Sleep, Night, Numbness

  Song: Your Are The Dark, Album: Redemption's Son, 2002

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• Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

  Tom Van Vleck

  Real, Night, Programmers

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• I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

  Viola Davis

  Night, Worry, All Night

  The OWN Network, Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.blackamazing.com. February 2012.

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• [Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did

  Albert Einstein

  Night, Light, People

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• I always wanted to play music, but my family was more interested in handing me paints and markers. Art was always my favorite subject in school, and I can remember staying up all night drawing as a small child. My expression via art was extremely strong as I grew and hasn't stopped.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Art, Strong, Children

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the bus station. And she just said, "Phil [Wood] has been up all night. He's heartbroken. Bud Johnson died last night." And Bud Johnson, like Zoot [Sims] and Al [Cohn] had been mentors to him.

  Jon Gordon

  Heartbroken, Night, Thinking

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• I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling when he was hosting the Grammys, I stayed up all night and wrote a hundred jokes, and I thought, "I'm always going to be the person that gives them more than they requested, and that's why they'll want to keep me around."

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, Writing, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.

  Misha Collins

  Children, Night, Two

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

  Kurt Vile

  Night, Alcohol, Gigs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Writing, Night

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• Srila Prabhupada has already had an amazing effect on the world. There's no way of measuring it. One day I just realized, "God, this man is amazing!" He would sit up all night translating Sanskrit into English, putting in glossaries to make sure everyone understands it, and yet he never came off as someone above you.

  George Harrison

  Night, Men, One Day

  Interview with Mukunda Goswami, September 4, 1982.

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• Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!"

  Giorgio Vasari

  Night, Work Out, Wife

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• I'm literally online all day long, and if I don't get back to everyone, I'll stay up all night.

  Brit Morin

  Night, Long, Online

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• I took care of myself. Basically I'm a vegetarian, I run every day, I exercise. I kind of control my living habits. I try to get a good night's sleep every night, I don't stay up all night and do all that stuff.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Good Night, Running, Sleep

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

  Jay Baruchel

  Night, Thinking, Next Day

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I've always loved California; I'll probably always live here on the West Coast, at least long-term. But I do love coming to New York. The energy is totally different, and I always have a lot of fun there. I always end up staying up all night! I look at my friends, like, "How do you guys do this every day?"

  Chelsea Wolfe

  Fun, Night, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rick Steiner is so stupid, he once stayed up all night to study for a urine test.

  Jim Cornette

  Stupid, Night, Tests

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• I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Smell, Watches

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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• Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

  Annie Proulx

  Reading, Night, Laughing

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• Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

  Nancy Mitford

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• I remember staying up all night waiting to see the first screening of Cape Fear because you knew that every time Robert DeNiro had a performance it was going to be revelatory. Then DeNiro hit this place, he seemed like he was done with the emotional cost of impaling himself like that, and he dedicated himself to comedy.

  Ethan Hawke

  Night, Emotional, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to "fix" the situation - which isn't possible anyway.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Sleep, Night, Phones

  "School Bullying: What You Haven’t Heard" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Night, Trying

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• The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

  Sarah Thornton

  Artist, Night, World

  Sarah Thornton (2012). “Seven Days In The Art World”, p.66, Granta Books

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Agnostic, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.39, Hachette UK

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