#night

Mademoiselle De Lafontaine – in right of her father, who was a German, assumed to be psychological, metaphysical and something of a mystic – now declared that when the moon shone with a light so intense it was well known that it indicated a special spiritual activity. The effect of the full moon in such a state of brilliancy was manifold. It acted on dreams, it acted on lunacy, it acted on nervous people; it had marvelous physical influences connected with life. Mademoiselle related that here cousin, who was mate of a merchant ship, having taken a nap on deck on such a night, lying on his back, with his face full in the light of the moon, had wakened, after a dream of an old woman clawing him by the cheek, with his features horribly drawn to one side; and his countenance had never quite recovered its equilibrium. ↗

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#moon #nightmare #dreams

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with. ↗

— Angela Carter

#awful #became #clear #deal #easier

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#care #comes #commission #every #guess

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#complete #complete opposite #down #guy #i

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#clergymen #gone #hold #holding #hosts

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#crap #different #doing #except #faster

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

#fortnight #looking #next #politics #use

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#either #i #late #morning #night

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#comes #night #thief #upon #us

I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights. ↗

— Connie Chung

#both #daughter #difficult #i #i think