“My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.” HeartSoulLastsNightGriefInfluenceSweetBrokenLoversMy HeartArmyExtraordinaryIllSensesMy SoulTheeEaseWakingPortraitsRemembranceLast NightReposeDeliriumIncomparable Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man."” MenTryingMindSelfNightEnergyProcessSeeingInfluenceEffectsBeing TruePsychics Author:Frederick Lenz
“I tend to be a loner I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!” PeopleThinkingImportantNightSocialLevelsInfluenceConversationMajorityImaginaryClosestMaxLonerTheoristsWeber Author:George Ritzer
“The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.” IfsFirstsMadeSometimesMatterNightHouseDecisionPracticeMorningCasesInfluenceMastersWeightWineAffairDrunkSoberDeliberateApprovedDeliberationGeneral Practice Author:Herodotus
“Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your heart is pure and that your life is sweet and clean.” HeartChildrenLittlesSoulLastsYoungLife IsMotherNightSleepDestinyForeverInfluenceSweetHolyPureSacredCleanBurdenFaithfulImmortalPreparingLast NightBosomsYoung ChildrenBeing FaithfulImmortal SoulLife Is Sweet Author:J.R. Miller
“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.” MindFirstsNightStarsGrowsNatureEducationSunInfluenceWindImportanceBlowGrassSunset Book:Nature and Other Essays Source: Nature and Other Essays
“How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.” NightHoursInfluenceSweetBlessingQuietCalmTheeCouchesSoothingBenign Author:Lord Byron
“Hitler used to come to my house once in a while for a cup of coffee, and because I led a normal life, he would leave at about 9 p.m. ... However, Hitler used to spend practically all of his nights, sometimes until four a.m., with Goebbels. ... God knows what evil influence Goebbels had on him during those long visits.” KnowsLongSometimesUsedNightEvilHouseFourInfluenceNormalCoffeeCupsGod KnowsNormal LifeCoffee CupGoebbels Author:Hermann Goring
“President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.” PeopleFirstsMadeSaidStatesLastsNightPresidentRealizingUnitedMorningUnited StatesInfluenceFoolishAwfulCarterHostagePresident Carter Author:Ted Koppel
“John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I said, "John, I couldn't do this every night and twice on Wednesday and Saturday".” SaidPlayNightInfluenceHeyEvery NightSaturdayWednesday Author:Gena Rowlands
“It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."” ThinkingSaidHardPlayNightForgetWorryInfluenceEvery NightForget It Author:Gena Rowlands
“As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.” IfsWritingBookSometimesHardMightNightFictionMysteryInfluenceDramaSellsHistoricalWesternContemporaryGenreSettlingHard TimesConsiderationHistorical FictionJournalDescribingStandpointBookstoresReviewers Author:Elizabeth Crook