#night

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#city #i #mayor #people #pledge

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#chicago #citizen #city #i #i am

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding? ↗

— James Caan

#am #baseball #bat #crying #dope

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#each #even #infinite #interrupted #night

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. ↗

— Eddie Cantor

#overnight #overnight success #success #takes #years

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#being #father #finding #him #his

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#did #eyes #front #having #know

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers. ↗

— Pauly Shore

#careers #comedians #heavy #know #lady

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare. ↗

— Dane Cook

#dreams #i #living #nightmare #personal

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#does #expression #line #lying #making