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“Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.”

Night Work Lovers Time Love Daytime Night Time

Author:Kenny Rogers

“If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.”

Ifs Night Dies Work Friday Roaring Thursday Friday Night

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.”

Night Left Work Empty Mark Luck Vanity Frustration Toil Remorse Purses Perplexity

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when Iam sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.”

Giving Heart Ideas Night Suffering Literature Work Style Sick Give Me Nerves Incapable Torment Fever Conveying

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.”

Men Night Women Work Theater Theatre Irony Memorable Tragic One Man Steady

Book:Tallulah: My Autobiography

Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”

Love Success Night Work Careers Wonderful Cold New Year Companionship Loving Life Curls Inspirational Career Motivational Career Career Women Careers Choices Cold Night Wonderful Night

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!”

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.”

Mean Long Night Work Failure Luck Train Endure Hardship Devoted Appointments Long Nights

Book:'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life

Source: 'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life

“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”

Night Three Work Morning Five Week Ten Clothes Seasons Riches Clock Opera Every Night Idle Three Times Dine

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.”

Inspirational Motivational Night Work Emotion Brain Highest Ideals Great Work Day And Night

Book:Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

“Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.”

Life Has Beens Lasts Night Work Expectations Constant Preparation Injured Preparation For Death

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.”

Night Work Musician Jazz Astronomy Jazz Music Astronomers Jazz Musician Burglars

Author:Miles Kington

“A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.”

Hard Night Work Findings Hunting Sucker Ninja Beavers Outdoorsman

Author:Si Robertson