To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.
I make sure that I laugh as much as possible, as its the best exercise, and if I'm really feeling the need to do some exercise, I'll go out with my best girls and dance the night away.
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.
Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.
I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed.
My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.
I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
