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Quotes About Nights

It's Champions League nights when our fans roar us on even more, lose their voices, and we really notice it. That's what the Champions League means to me.
~ Sergio Busquets
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.
~ A.E. Housman
How lovely they were, those long summer nights: the words and the silences, the sunsets and the stars.
~ Polly Samson
I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.
~ Derek Blasberg
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
~ Elvis Costello
I watch football all the time. I enjoy getting home on Monday nights and watch 'Monday Night Football,' and 'Sunday Night Football' when we get home early enough on Sunday nights.
~ Kyle Busch
We had some glorious nights at Goodison and the fans were superb.
~ David Moyes
Jubilation knows and Longing grants — only Lament still learns; with girlish hands she counts the ancient evil through the nights. But suddenly, unpracticed and askant, she lifts one of our voice's constellations Into the sky unclouded by her breath.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! – powers and people – and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
These are the ashes of fiery weather, Of nights full of the green stars from Ireland, Wet out of the sea, and luminously wet, Like beautiful and abandonded refugees.
~ Wallace Stevens
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,Dream of battled fields no more,Days of danger, nights of waking.
~ Walter Scott
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
~ Douglas Adams
It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
~ Caterina Scorsone
The nights are very unclear here. But if the moon is full, we know it. We feel one thing one minute, something else the next.
~ Raymond Carver
Or other nights when, for no reason, her suddenly girlish heart went Southern on her and gave birth to the blues.
~ Julie Smith
If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Autumn Begins Autumn begins unnoticed. Nights slowly lengthen, and little by little, clear winds turn colder and colder, summer's blaze giving way. My thatch hut grows still. At the bottom stair, in bunchgrass, lit dew shimmers. We
~ David Hinton
Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!
~ Anonymous, The Arabian Nights
Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last
~ Tom Petty
On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.
~ Jack Kerouac
I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.
~ Buju Banton