Noon quotes

Noon

65 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Thomas Young
Thomas Young Physicist

"Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories."

Voltaire
Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

"When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon."

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Woodrow Wilson Politician
Noon

"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."

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Deshaun Watson Professional American Football Player
Noon

"If I want to eat lunch, I can't go out at noon and head over to Chick-fil-A or Mac's restaurant and not get stopped."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Noon

"And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Noon

"At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen."

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Alan Ball Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Noon

"There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on."

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
Noon

"I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Noon

"From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs."

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Stephen King Author
Noon

"I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Noon

"To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence."

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