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Night Quotes


"I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous."


"Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981."


"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."


"If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it."


"Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best."


"My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night."


"It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging."


"I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track."


"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."


"I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody."


"The thing is, playing with us, whoever was the left winger had to come to play every night because that's the way it was. Charlie came in and he just fit that role - big and strong around the net."


"It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special."


"Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast."


"When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off."


"I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out."


"In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office."


"There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another."


"When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system."


"Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react."


"Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them."


"I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena."


"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."


"Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night."


"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."


"Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air."


"I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them."


"You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood."


"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"


"Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive."


"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."


"Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house."


"We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds."


"There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink."


"No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'."


"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."


"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."


"Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to."


"Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live."


"Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well."
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