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Night Quotes


"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."


"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."



"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 often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night."


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


"That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings."


"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 was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."


"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."


"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."



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


"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."


"And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night."


"There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon."


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



"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."


"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."


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


"I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator."


"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck."


"His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum."



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



"I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that."



"I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything."


"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."


"One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up."


"The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist."


"But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning."


"If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on."


"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."


"There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!"


"We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night."


"Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night."


"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."


"I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president."


"We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early."
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