E. B. White Quotes

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?

I remember kickboxing and traveling the world when I was young. I would go to Japan or Africa, and I would go for the experience. As soon as I got off the plane, we'd go have a good time, party. Fighting was just the outlet of what I was doing there.

I'm all about nightlife. I live during the night.

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play until 4 in the morning. Then you'd go out to the corner and talk to a couple of musicians - I used to talk to Oscar Pettiford a whole lot - you'd stand there till 7, 8 or 9, or else go down to the jam session at Minton's.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.

I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.

I've always been a night owl.

My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and benefits at night. This is nonstop.

I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time.

Around 16 I began going out with friends to the city. That's where the action was. We would go to this place on Times Square - real shifty - and get fake IDs made up.

When I'm in L.A., I kind of go crazy in the middle of the night when it's, like, completely quiet.

I used to be the sort of person that would go out for lunch with girlfriends and get home at 3 A.M.

I used to go out and carouse. I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought I might miss something.

Nothing good happens after midnight.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.