 Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today. Author: Abraham Crowley
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| With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again. Author: Abraham Pais
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| That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. Author: Acker Bilk
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| I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom? Author: Adam Ant
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| Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show. Author: Adam Sandler
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| Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
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| We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. Author: Al Gore
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| I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena. Author: Al Jourgensen
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| I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time. Author: Al Kaline
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| The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline." Author: Alan Dershowitz
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| A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights. Author: Alan Jay Lerner
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| Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. Author: Alan Watts
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| A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. Author: Aleister Crowley
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| Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices. Author: Alex O'Loughlin
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| Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. Author: Alex Van Halen
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| 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. Author: Alex Winter
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| Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Author: Alexander Pope
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| The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. Author: Alexis Carrel
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| Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
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| This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. Author: Alice B. Toklas
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| Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold. Author: Alice Hoffman
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| Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. Author: Allen Ginsberg
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| If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now. Author: Allen Iverson
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| Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? Author: Alva Myrdal
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| I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night. Author: Amanda Holden
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| If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on. Author: Amber Tamblyn
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| There's no night without stars. Author: Andre Norton
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| For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better. Author: Andrea Martin
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| It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night. Author: Andrea Mitchell
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| They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter. Author: Andrea Mitchell
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| Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear. Author: Andrei A. Gromyko
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| At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia. Author: Andrei Platonov
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| Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. Author: Andrei Sakharov
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| Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening. Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
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| Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. Author: Andrew Motion
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| I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years. Author: Andrew Wiles
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| There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. Author: Andrew Wiles
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| Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. Author: Andy Goldsworthy
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| The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it. Author: Andy Goldsworthy
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| The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. Author: Andy Rooney
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| I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. Author: Andy Warhol
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| I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with. Author: Angela Carter
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| Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours. Author: Angela Lansbury
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| I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show. Author: Angie Martinez
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| I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night. Author: Angie Martinez
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| I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station. Author: Angie Martinez
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| I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day. Author: Ann Druyan
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| You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long. Author: Ann Wilson
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| The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld
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| I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. Author: Anna Quindlen
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| My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! Author: Anne Baxter
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| You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches. Author: Anne Dudley
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| Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless? Author: Anne Tyler
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| It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do. Author: Anthony Anderson
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| What we should be doing is opening up this process much more, having a vote of the Legislature, the City Council, the state Legislature about whether this should go forward. Author: Anthony D. Weiner
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| Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die. Author: Anthony Doerr
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| I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons. Author: Anthony Hopkins
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| I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. "Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person." Author: Anthony LaPaglia
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| Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. Author: Anthony Sampson
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| 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. Author: Anthony Trollope
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| Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. Author: Anton Chekhov
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| You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. Author: Antony Sher
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| I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights. Author: April Winchell
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| You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever. Author: Arthur Hiller
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| The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Author: Arthur Koestler
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| There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing. Author: Arto Lindsay
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| I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit. Author: Ashley Scott
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| When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid. Author: Audrey Meadows
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| Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing. Author: Austin Dobson
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| I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different. Author: Austin Peck
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| Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. Author: Barack Obama
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| Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose. Author: Barbara Boxer
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| Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. Author: Barbara Bush
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| I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. Author: Barbara Feldon
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| I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not. Author: Barbara Hepworth
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| We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us. Author: Barbara Mandrell
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| College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families. Author: Barbara Mikulski
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| I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt. Author: Barbra Streisand
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| My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand. Author: Barbra Streisand
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| Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. Author: Barry Cornwall
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| The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind. Author: Barry Diller
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| I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then. Author: Barry Gibb
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| I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing. Author: Barry Gibb
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| To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. Author: Barry Humphries
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| And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that. Author: Barry McGuire
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| That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight. Author: Barry McGuire
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| Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. Author: Beck
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| I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me. Author: Bede Griffiths
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| I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. Author: Ben Affleck
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| One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it. Author: Ben E. King
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