What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. ~By John Jakes ~
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. ~By Anna Letitia Barbauld ~
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? ~By Bram Stoker ~
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect. ~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well. ~By Robert Trout ~
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~By Bill Vaughan ~
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. ~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight. ~By Bob Geldof ~
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside. ~By James Daly ~
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded. ~By Frederick Forsyth ~
The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety. ~By James Hogg ~
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~By John Wayne ~
The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site. ~By Bo Gritz ~
What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all. ~By Lee Child ~
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. ~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird. ~By Drew Curtis ~
What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie. ~By Joe Pantoliano ~
They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter. ~By Andrea Mitchell ~
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it. ~By Casey Stengel ~
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. ~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want! ~By John Zorn ~
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not. ~By Barbara Hepworth ~
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. ~By Dean Koontz ~
24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day. ~By Stephen Hopkins ~
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight. ~By Reggie Jackson ~
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. ~By Calvin Coolidge ~
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. ~By Jodie Foster ~
I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week. ~By Jerry Falwell ~
New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning. ~By Robert Asprin ~
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon. ~By Casey Stengel ~
I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path. ~By Debi Mazar ~
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night. ~By Marguerite Young ~
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. ~By Walt Whitman ~
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. ~By Carl Sandburg ~
Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself. ~By John Hutton ~
The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting. ~By Jillian Bach ~
We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight. ~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~By Og Mandino ~
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