Good Night quotes
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"The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep."
"Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend."
"When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isn’t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good night’s sleep, the next day I’m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational."
"And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
"I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep."
"Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart."
"I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference."
"Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
"Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream"
"My idea of a good night out is staying in."
"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."
"You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night."
"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."
"Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night."
"The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!"
"I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night."
"You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter."
"On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones."
"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
"...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones."
