Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

Mike Wallace

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

Edward R. Murrow

Good night, and good luck.

Dave Barry

One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

Kurt Vonnegut

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard,

Charlotte Bronte

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

Jane Curtin

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow,

Bill Nighy

When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

Bernard Williams

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

William Shakespeare

At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.

Enya

Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.

Naomi Wolf

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

Samuel L. Jackson

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

Walter Scott

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

David Hockney

Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?

David Brooks

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

Benicio Del Toro

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

Arthur Rimbaud

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

Arnold Bennett

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

Arnold Palmer

Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.

Diana Nyad

If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'

Diana Gabaldon

Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.

Dennis Nilsen

I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.