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Night Quotes

The most scared I’d ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again… just singing one song, the national anthem.

– Hugh Jackman

Africa touches me. At night, there’s this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

– Hasso Plattner

Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

– Harvey Mackay

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven’t seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

– Hedi Slimane

Late night television is ready for someone like me… standards have gone to an all-time low.

– Howard Stern

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

– Herb Caen

I don’t gamble anymore since I had a kid. I have fun in Vegas. I see shows, Cirque du Soleil. Don Rickles was in town last time I was there. I’ll have lunch with George Wallace. I just look in the Weekly calendar and see who’s performing, and inevitably, we all meet up late night at one of the casinos. Jesus, I sound boring.

– Greg Fitzsimmons

I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn’t use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once – an honor.

– Henry Rollins

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

– Harry Dean Stanton

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mystery at the center of ‘Burial Rites’ is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

– Hannah Kent

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

– Harold H. Greene

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

– George William Russell

There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.

– Henny Youngman

I have never run for political office, but every night I am reaching out to millions of Americans on the radio and I am deeply concerned that the middle class of the United States is being sold out to multi-national corporations with a globalist agenda.

– George Noory

I’m sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I’m useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

– Hallie Ephron

To be on ‘Coast to Coast,’ you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.

– George Noory

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

– Greta Scacchi

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, ‘I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.’

– Haruki Murakami

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

– Hawa Abdi

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them ‘little tombs’ and keep them in a storage space… I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

– Halle Berry

It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can’t tell you how many people have had this syndrome… the ‘Old Hag Syndrome.’ Apparently, there’s this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her – she’ll pop up. She’s out there.

– George Noory

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

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it’s the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

– Henry Rollins

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o’clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press.

– Henry Villard

Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can’t do too many new songs every night as they’ve never heard it.

– Glenn Tipton

Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see.

– Hulk Hogan

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it’s dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

– Jo Brand

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

– Ignatius of Antioch

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

– Jefferson Davis

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