#nigh

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. ↗

— Sophocles

#faring #just #just one #like #more

I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#hard #i #night #saw #times

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#glad #got #i #knighthood #me

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#fire #his #life #man #night

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#cottage #glass #got #had #home

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#ascetic #brain #distracted #fairly #get

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music. ↗

— Jack Davenport

#dance #dance music #gay #music #nightclubs

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way! ↗

— Richard Simmons

#cabbage #diet #does #drink #every

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents. ↗

— Norman Granz

#band #because #big #big band #duke

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system. ↗

— John Hume

#changed #course #educational #eventually #fortnight