Night Quotes - Page 171

I am awake a lot of nights.

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.

It’s hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long...

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.

I also watched boxing all the time and Tuesday Night Fights on USA and just kept hitting my heavy back in the garage.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.