E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
[Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]”
“Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!”
“Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.”
“Every nigger I know wants to be cool. There's nothing wrong with controlling yourself, but can't can't nobody control other people.”
Source: Song Of Solomon
“Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.”
“Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.”
Source: The Dead and Other Stories: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
“Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth.”
“Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, things he had seen, and thoughts he had had. Sometimes he drew a picture. He always ended by asking himself a question so he would have something to think about while falling asleep.”
Source: The Trumpet of the Swan
“Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.”
“Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
“Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.”
“Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.”
Source: The Darkest Night
“Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.”
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year
“Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.”
“Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.”
“Every night, he would look up at the sky, wondering if she, too, was looking at the same star, and thinking of him.”
“Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.”
“Every night I cry myself to sleep and I whisper, "Just keep swimming." But it gets really hard to swim if you feel like you're anchored in the water.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”
“Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.”
“Every night I get called to a place of love and solitude. I meet with all my heroes and sheroes. Its a place of quiet and peace, in my sleep”
“Every night I get down on my knees and pray that Dennis Kucinich will burst into flames.”
“Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change things. What can I do?" I never hear these questions from peasants in southern Colombia or Kurds in southeastern Turkey under miserable repression or anybody who is suffering. They don't ask what they can do; they tell you what they're doing.”
“Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.”
“Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.”
“Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?”
“Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.”
Source: A Little Chorus of Love
“Every night I play as if my life depends on it.”
“Every night I pray to God: 'Please, no more wack MC's.'”
“Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.”
“Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.”
“Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.”
“Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.”
“Every night I wait for you until I fall asleep... I wake up in the morning and know that I will live my life without you, but you are my only love.”
“Every night, I wake up and I have to go downstairs and eat, because my body tells me, 'Yo, this is the time that you normally eat,' and I do - I feel comfortable eating what I want, and my wife even says she knows there's some issues there, like sometimes subconsciously I still might even hide what I ate, because when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to go downstairs and eat, so if I ate something that came in a wrapper, I had to bury the wrapper.”
Source: Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead
“Every night I want to be Heathcliff with Cathy tapping at the window. I want to be Hamlet on the windy battlements. I want the Flying Dutchman to dock. I want what everyone who has lost someone wants: a visitation.
Every second, someone dying is promising to come back from the dead. Every hour, waiting for it to happen, someone living notches up another hour lost.
For the Dead, time stops. For the living, time slows. I am in slow-motion now. It takes me twice as long to clean my teeth, half the morning to make coffee and wash the cup. When I go shopping, I don't remember what I need.
That's because it's you I need. I stare at the bag of potatoes, the packet of bacon. Absurd. Go home.”
Source: Night Side of the River
“Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.”
“Every night I went into Hannah's room and sat with her stuff. The thing I couldn't get was how her clothes and her books and her drawings were still there, but she wasn't. It just didn't compute. Her room was a like a car without an engine, everything where it should be, except all it was was potential. None of it was going to get used again.”
Source: Lover Unbound
“Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.”
“Every night is a time for drink.”
“Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.”
“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.”
“Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!”
“Every night my sleep is wrecked by High Altitude Disease.”
“Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.”
“Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.”
“Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do anything they want. That we all have the power to create a movement for change. That the best part of ourselves is the part that rises up instinctively from compassion.”
“Every night passes grief-stricken, weeping.”
Source: In the Next Galaxy