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Quotes About Nighttime

What do you mean, something important? It's the middle of the night! -Sandstorm
~ Erin Hunter
I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.
~ Diablo Cody
I know. It's just that I'm wondering why you've decided to be nice to me now.' 'Sometimes I can't. But right now, I can. When everyone's asleep and everything's quiet, it's easier.
~ Gillian Flynn
So who are you?" Jiming asked. "Other than a boy who brings wine to toads at night.
~ Grace Lin
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
~ Florence Welch
Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
~ Rafer Johnson
My nighttime look is exactly like my daytime look - like I'm going to a super fancy funeral. I guess it would be considered extreme to most people, but I like it that way. The idea of conventional beauty isn't attractive to me... that's why, when I was growing up, I felt kind of torn about makeup.
~ Kat Von D
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.
~ Franny Armstrong
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
~ Peter O'Toole
The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.
~ Mary Stewart
The sweatpants and long-sleeved shirt has an ominous ring to Stevie, hinting at activities in wild places where protection would be needed, or maybe at night to go raccoon-poking
~ Maureen Johnson
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one nightSailed off in a wooden shoe—Sailed on a river of crystal lightInto a sea of dew.
~ Eugene Field
The truth was the dreams she'd been having for the past half year about the muscular stranger with glowing, amber-gold eyes had become progressively more disturbing. He was her nighttime visitor every time she closed her eyes. Liv had even named him—inside her head she called him "the dark man." For
~ Evangeline Anderson
Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.
~ Jasmine Tookes
Honestly, I sleep best wearing nothing. But with kids, I've learned to sleep with underwear very close by, if not wrapped around one of my feet, so I'm ready to go if something happens.
~ Dierks Bentley
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
~ Benjamin Britten
I normally work like a vampire. Around 8 to 9 P.M., what I call 'the spirits' actually show up, and then I just go in the booth and scream on top of a track. I only sing on the mic. I don't sit down and write anything.
~ Ester Dean
A wood at night, or even more at twilight, can be a strange place. Fear begins to come more quickly in a wood, with darkness and twilight, than in any other place I know.
~ H.E. Bates
I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.
~ Henry Rollins
It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.
~ Danny DeVito
That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.
~ Stephenie Meyer
I had four siblings. We were hiking all the time. But camping? No. I don't like the idea of the creatures at night.
~ Reggie Miller
When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.
~ Christopher Mintz-Plasse
I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni