Night Quotes - Page 48

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night.

To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

When you go through a tunnel - you're going on a train - you go through a tunnel, the tunnel is dark, but you're still going forward. Just remember that. But if you're not going to get up on stage for one night because you're discouraged or something, then the train is going to stop. Everytime you get up on stage, if it's a long tunnel, it's going to take a lot of times of going on stage before things get bright again. You keep going on stage, you go forward. EVERY night you go on stage.

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun