#nigh

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#altogether #force #himself #his #impress

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it. ↗

— Zac Efron

#bad #drunk #earn #fame #get

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how. ↗

— John Walsh

#best #best way #child #copes #differently

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#after #capital #day #earned #election

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#after #awake #constructing #deathly #designers

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#force #get #his #his way #i

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ↗

— Alan Watts

#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into

Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun. ↗

— Phil Collen

#every night #fun #get #half #hits

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire. ↗

— David Copperfield

#down #dying #ever #fire #got