Quotes About Nighthawks

Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.

Tom Waits, Nighthawks On The Radio. E é sintomático que Waits cite o maldito Bukowski: sua voz poderosa se transforma ocasionalmente num grunhido disforme, as palavras são praticamente vomitadas num dialeto que, por incrível que pareça (ou não), acabam por transcender seu próprio significado. Poesia musical em estado bruto...

It was a haven, a little island of light in the darkness of the downtown, very like the diner in Edward Hopper's painting 'The Nighthawks'.

Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don't understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.

The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end.