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“I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.”

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Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.”

“Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.”

Thinking Pain Night Lost Black Loneliness Flesh Instant Thinking Of You Unendurable

Book:The Collected Shorter Poems

Source: The Collected Shorter Poems

“Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.”

Thinking Made Stills Sometimes Lying Night College Bed Warm Best Ever

Author:David Duchovny

“At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.”

Thinking Men Long Lying Night Sea Long Time Down And Distance Calm Pale Chamber Nazareth

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.”

Thinking Running Night Brain Hollywood Stereotype Zombie Irresponsible Thrillers

Author:Max Brooks

“Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear”

Thinking Made Eye Faces Night Dark Clear Draws Sight Calm Our Thoughts

Author:Iain Banks

“I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.”

Thinking World Hard Stories Lasts Night Found Accepting Happened Century Events News Bigger Reports Pot Drag Reporters Inability Last Night Neat Cumulative

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

Thinking World Doe Lying Poetry Night Time Literature Lines Party Poet Expression Bed Poetry Is Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets What Is Poetry

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.”

People Thinking Firsts Moments Wanted Night Hate Names Heard Annoying Arrogant Chairman Jury Hate Me

Author:John Banville

“It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.”

Source: The Ruin of a Christian

“I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.”

Thinking Years Humans Heart Lasts Night Given Felt My Heart Encounters Last Year Given Up Prostitution Closeness Friendliness Pantomime

Book:The Sisters Brothers

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.”

Thinking Knows World Littles Body America Night President Sleep Morning Growing Johnson Free World

Book:This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood

Source: This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood

“I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.”

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Author:Ronnie Drew

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

“I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory. And whenever he let down his arms, the enemy prevailed over the children of Israel. Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?”

People Thinking Children Stills Stories Today Night Energy Causes Enemy Arms Praying Victory Israel Weary Testament All Night Moses Old Testament Praying To God Let Down

Author:Sophie Scholl

“I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.”

“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!”

People Thinking Important Night Social Levels Influence Conversation Majority Imaginary Closest Max Loner Theorists Weber

Author:George Ritzer

“We want players here who are going to be here for the long term. Players who buy houses here, who settle in the area. It's a brilliant club, great supporters but we want players to come here to be part of that community rather than being ships in the night having a last pay day at Ipswich... we want to build for the future rather than do a quick fix because I think it's going to be a long-term job.”

Thinking Want Long Jobs Lasts Night House Term Community Pay Player Areas Clubs Brilliant Ships Settling Long Term Supporter Quick Fixes

Author:Paul Jewell

“The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.”

“We have a high ceiling. We're still young. We're still learning coach's system and we're still learning how to play hard every night. I think that's been a bad habit of ours the last few years. It's a habit that's hard to shake, too. I think if we keep pushing, we'll be alright this season.”

Ifs Thinking Years Stills Hard Play Lasts Young Night Sports Habit Seasons Coaches Shakes Pushing Every Night Ceilings Alright Bad Habits Play Hard

Author:Andrew Bogut

“I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.”

Thinking Years Night Games Sports Steps Successful Team Lucky Being Successful Contributing Step Up Good Team

Author:Ed Belfour

“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.”

Thinking Two Whole Wisdom Jobs Night Politics Term Economy Battle Mass Army Management Victim Unions Customers Welfare Liberalism Ems Converting Battleground

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Rob Schneider and David Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this "Click", actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels I Can Ideas Would Be Night Guy Can Do Known Pages My Friends Mark Partners Saturday Clue Alright Clicks Saturday Night Spades Saturday Night Live

Author:Adam Sandler

“I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.”

“Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps. I pray for you every night. You’ve taught me to feel confident in myself, believe in myself that I can do it when I didn’t think I could do it. Dad, it’s been an up-and-down road for all of us, but you’ve always been there supporting from afar, texting me Bible verses every single day, telling me you love me every single day. That builds me up and I thank you so much. I love you. I’m just glad you’re part of this journey with us.”

“To me, Kane's always been a good guy, a good teammate. I think now he's got a girlfriend. You can tell, he's 24, turning 25, he's not 18 or 19 anymore. It's kind of fun seeing him and Toews get a little bit older, have girlfriends. They're starting to stay in on a Friday night, watch a movie instead.”

Thinking Kind Littles Night Guy Fun Bits Watches Seeing Little Bit Starting Girlfriend Friday Teammate Nhl Good Guy Friday Night Good Team Blackhawks

Author:Duncan Keith

“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.”

Thinking Should Said School Lasts Film Form Night Saws Basketball High School Decided Yeah Pops Last Night Wade Free Throw D Wade

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Seriously, the Olympic badminton players were apparently trying to lose on purpose, a big story. But really, think about it, if you train day and night for four years to be in the Olympics for badminton, in a way, haven't you already lost?”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Years Stories Bigs Funny Purpose Night Lost Loses Four Player Havens Train Four Years Olympics Day And Night London Olympics Badminton

Author:Conan O'Brien

“My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half.”

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Author:Pat Forde

“I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“One night I couldn't sleep. It was like 2:00 in the morning. I was thinking, 'What can I do?' I'm watching TV. I'm like, 'Let me do something else.' I'm not going to fall asleep for a few hours. What are my hobbies? There was the masturbation option. I skipped that because just knowing my kids are down the hall I felt psychotic. So, I went with watching more TV. I couldn't come up with anything. I was going, 'God, read a book.' Then I was like this, 'Where do I keep the books?' I've got nothing to do but watch TV.”

Thinking Book Kids Night Fall Felt Hours Sleep Watches Morning Knowing Tvs Let Me Come Up Halls Hobbies One Night Masturbation Psychotic Watching Tv

Author:Adam Sandler

“I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Kind Has Beens Moments Bigs Earth Night Connections England Complexes Driving Cells Visible That Moment Southern Organisms Lacking New England

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“We had President Obama on the show last night. I think the president enjoys visiting NBC because we're the only place that has lower numbers than he does.”

Thinking Doe Shows Lasts Night Enjoy President Numbers President Obama Last Night Visiting Nbc

Author:Jay Leno

“When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.”

Thinking Night Creative Failing Be Creative Dig Deep

Book:The road ahead

Source: The road ahead

“Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.”

Thinking Wells Doe Shows Able Beautiful Night Reading Pieces Fronts Jokes Scripts Worried Comedian Endeavor Swings Athletic Deconstruction Fluidity

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I think it helps to have a good old-fashioned trajectory, plodding along. Obviously one has an ego and it's really easy to have that ego tickled, but what helps me get through the night is if I concentrate on just quality of work so that I don't panic about my profile.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Night Easy Quality Ego Help Me Panic Old Fashioned Profile Trajectory Quality Work

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night, change its diapers, and give it a bottle, but in their heart of hearts they still think they shouldn't have to.”

Thinking Men Giving Heart Stills Night Walks Middle Baby Get Up Bottles Middle Of The Night Diapers

Author:Rita Rudner

“I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.”

Thinking Night One Day Dinner Dessert

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Care Night Sleep Rich Dog Keys Riches Weary Restless God Knows Gift From God Rich Man Girdles Restless Nights

Book:The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation

Source: The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation

“There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.”

Thinking Soul Joy Night Stars Attention Clear Greater Sky Disappear

Author:Simone Weil

“The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.”

“I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.”

People Thinking Firsts Humans Sometimes Night Sound Voice Water Crowds Woods Human Voice Sound Of Water

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.”

Thinking Persons Stories Body Used Night Actors Acting Healing Roles Sun Gone Fire Storytelling Priests Terrified Tribes Storyteller Healer Priesthood Archetype Weaving

Author:Ben Kingsley

“American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.”

Thinking Night Fall Special Clothes Everyday Luxury Occasions Bags Weekend Not Afraid Traps Old Fashioned American Woman Special Occasion French Woman

Author:Michael Kors

“I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.”

Thinking I Can Able Night Perfect Morning Stress Ice Evening Desert Take Me Afternoon Hitting Bats Bumps Geese Take Me Away

Author:Gautam Gambhir

“I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.”

Thinking Night Social Space Architecture Constructs Day And Night

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!”

Thinking Want Needs Long Night Difficult My Own Deals Mad Selfish Girlfriend All Night Marry Me Time Of Need I Need Time

Author:Simon Cowell

“When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.”

Thinking Ideas Night Certain Song Mistake Audience Reactions

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.”

Thinking Hands Night Dark Dawn Mourning Candle Weeping Moths Dark Night

Author:Saib Tabrizi

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