All Quotes

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
‐‐ Patricia Cornwell

Night hath a thousand eyes.
‐‐ John Lyly

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.
‐‐ Rose George

Night is the mother of counsels.
‐‐ George Herbert

Night is the mother of thoughts.
‐‐ John Florio

'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast.
‐‐ Catherine Mary Stewart

Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
‐‐ Anand Gopal

Night tennis began at the United States Open in 1975 with certain stars trying to beg out and certain patrons trying to dump unwanted tickets on scalpers.
‐‐ George Vecsey

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.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
‐‐ Athol Fugard

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.
‐‐ Catherine O'Hara

Night was running ahead of itself.
‐‐ Jorge Amado

'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. It's a Russian reflection of American film culture.
‐‐ Timur Bekmambetov

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
‐‐ Oscar Hijuelos

'Nightmare on Elm Street' really lends itself to using new technologies. CGI would be a great way to exploit and embrace the dream sequences.
‐‐ Robert Englund

Nightmares are releases.
‐‐ Sylvia Browne

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another.
‐‐ Charlie Rose

Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.
‐‐ Matt Groening

Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.
‐‐ Stefan Persson

Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

Nikola Tesla spent one of his most productive years in Colorado Springs.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

Nina Simone had such an androgynous voice; the first time I listened to her I thought it was a man, and I'm sure a lot of people listening to me think I'm a woman. Her voice is kinda like the poster child for me.
‐‐ Shamir

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
‐‐ Adolf Galland

Nine in the box... that's a football term.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to validate building it, financially. It leads to getting burn-out because a tour that would be fun if it lasted three weeks has to last 15 weeks.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.
‐‐ Michael Azerrad

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
‐‐ Ziad Doueiri

Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.
‐‐ Justin Long

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
‐‐ Peter Farrelly

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.
‐‐ Andrew Niccol

Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
‐‐ Carolyn Maloney

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
‐‐ Colin Mochrie

Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.
‐‐ Zoe Sugg

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
‐‐ Anatole France

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
‐‐ Mary Lyon