Night Quotes

My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

~ Steven Spielberg

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

~ Jack Kerouac

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

~ Wentworth Miller

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

~ Tom Stoppard

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

~ Chris Cornell

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

~ Gary Johnson

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

~ Ernie Pyle

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

~ Patty Loveless

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.' That's my job; that's what I do.

~ Jimmy Fallon

I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'

~ Hannibal Buress

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

~ Bernard Williams

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

~ Aaron Sorkin

I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

~ John Cusack

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

~ Wentworth Miller

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

~ John Stamos

To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!

~ Taylor Kinney

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

~ Corey Hart

The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.

~ Frank Iero

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

~ Lisa Morton

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

~ Billy Collins

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

~ Edward Hirsch

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

~ George Orwell

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

~ Francis Quarles

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

~ J. R. Moehringer

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

~ Joanna Southcott

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

~ V. S. Naipaul

After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.

~ Donna Air

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

~ Amitabh Bachchan

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.

~ Erin Morgenstern

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

~ Charlie Watts

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

~ Andy Warhol

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

~ Leo Szilard

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

~ Jude Law

I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.

~ Samantha Stosur

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

~ Tom Shadyac

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

~ Margaret Mead