Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.
It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is probably what has kept me going. I had none of the self-doubts which have bothered me in the past. I was totally positive.
My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.
It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.
Close the playand keep the store open nights.
Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.
There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him. " These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers.
Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights.
These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.
One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep.
He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.