I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don’t know why, but he did. – John Lee Hooker
When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter. – Jackie Speier
If I couldn’t have discipline, if I sit up eatin’ fried chicken in bed at night, I’d just as soon be dead. I take care of myself. – Jim Brown
I sort of was inspired by ‘Friday Night Lights,’ where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were both large ensemble dramas where you had many stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that’s really why I wanted to develop ‘Parenthood’ as a series. – Jason Katims
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ book. – Jack Canfield
Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it. – Joan Rivers
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. – Joseph Heller
I’m terrified of writing at night, for then I can’t sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon. – Italo Calvino
When you’re in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron’s bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change. – Joe Torre
My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted. – Herbert Hoover
The craziest place I’ve probably ever visited while filming would have to be Jordan. I did a small test shoot for a test movie. We arrived in Jordan, and we stayed in Amman for a night. Then we drove down for three hours into the middle of the Wadi Rum Desert, which is in the absolute middle of nowhere. It was insane. – Isaac Hempstead Wright
In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in a state of flux. If I played something good, really substantial, I’d stick it in again. – Jimmy Page
Sting was one of my first and biggest influences. One night in North Carolina, when I reached out and touched his shoulder, he had the face paint on, and I didn’t know why, but I loved it. I wanted to be just like him, and I was only 11 years old. – Jeff Hardy
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches. – James Altucher
‘Saturday Night Live’ is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too. – Jill Scott
Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. – Isaac Asimov
I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a ‘Die Hard’ movie on. – Jai Courtney
In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I’m always working on new material. – Judah Friedlander
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I’ve known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You’re travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error. – James Salter
If I have a weakness, it’s probably ice cream. That’s where I get lax, sloppy. I’ll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows. – Jack Nicklaus
Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you’re capable of. It’s only two teams on that Monday night. – Jerry Rice
It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good. – Jules Verne
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things. – Julian Barnes
I came to NBC on ‘Friday Night Lights’ and they have supported that show and found ways – unprecedented ways – to keep it on the air for a long time. And when I came to them with the idea of doing ‘Parenthood,’ they not only supported me in doing it but also got behind it in such a way that we were able to put together this incredible cast. – Jason Katims
