Nocturnal Activity Quotes

At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep.

My cat, Ethel, is an indoor cat but somehow she's sneakin' out at night. 'Cause the other morning I found a stamp on her paw... I wouldn't have noticed myself, but I just bought this new black light and she passed right under it and I said, 'Hey, what's that on you paw?

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.

I can't do that. I'm already the single guy living in his parents' house. I can't be seen digging a grave in the middle of the night.

I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

I'm not really a fan of sleep, to be honest with you. I work out at 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, and sometimes I just keep going. I've never been a big sleeper.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

Night shoots are great. They always feel quite mischievous and naughty because you're out working while everyone else is in bed.

I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.

We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play.

The neurologist calls it 'Non-REM parasomnia'. For the sufferer, it might mean rising in the middle of the night, getting your motorbike out, going for a ride, and waking in the morning with no memory of the experience.

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day and not very much activity at night. There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running - one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak.

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

On being asked by Channel 4's Derek Thompson if he owned horses - No, son. I don't like anything that eats while I sleep.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.