Quotes of: Single-night Keyword

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.

By Night in Chile

God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.

The Night Eternal

Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren’t immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled Friday night, with no thought as to what they fell into by Saturday.

Night Film

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

The Night of the Gun

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

In the Night Garden

The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.

In the Night Garden

At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

In the Night Garden

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

In the Night Garden

Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.

The Night Listener

Why do you always wear black?” She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. “I’m in mourning for my life. I’m unhappy.

No Night is Too Long

It's six o'clock; my drink is at the three-quarter mark - three-quarters down not three-quarters up - and the night begins. ("New York Blues")

Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories

I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

A Night to Surrender

Will you teach me how to paint?” “Just paint.” “I’m not any good.” “Do it for therapy. You can go to art school later.

Last Night I Sang to the Monster

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

Thousandth Night and Minla's Flowers

Now, along with the guns I'd retrieved from my personal storage unit, I felt totally prepared to write a scholarly book on the Middle East.--Titus Ray, Chapter 9

One Night in Tehran

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques