Francois Villon18
Mediæval French poet 1431 - 1463Related quotes
„Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.“
— Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
Source: Goodnight Moon
„People who work the day shift, kiss their kids goodnight, and head out for the night shift — without disappointment, without regret — that goodnight kiss a reminder of everything they're working for.“
— Michelle Obama lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States 1964
2000s, Democratic National Convention speech (2008)
„Goodnight, Gracie.“
— Gracie Allen American actress and comedienne 1902 - 1964
It's commonly believed that at the end of stage shows Allen would reply to George Burns line "Say goodnight, Gracie", with "Goodnight, Gracie". Recordings from the time do not have her using this reply.
Disputed
„Goodnight, and good luck.“
— José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Former Prime Minister of Spain 1960
Closing remark to the Presidential debate with Mariano Rajoy in the 2008 election campaign.
As President, 2008
„Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.“
— Jimmy Durante American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor 1893 - 1980
Famous sign-off line to all his radio and TV shows, the meaning of which he never publicly revealed, leading to much speculation and many theories. Only after his death did it become public knowledge that it was reference to his first wife, Jeanne Olson, who died in 1943, and that Calabash was a private name between them for Calabasas, California, where she spent much of the final years of her life.
„I need
a lullaby
a kiss goodnight
angel sweet
love of my life
o, I need this“
— Natalie Merchant American singer-songwriter 1963
Song lyrics, Ophelia (1998), My Skin
„Crank is to coffee what sexual homicide is to a goodnight kiss.“
— Jim Goad Author, publisher 1961
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats (Simon & Schuster, 1997)
„(Typical signoff) Goodnight, and have a pleasant tomorrow.“
— Tina Fey American comedian, writer, producer and actress 1970
„Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.“
— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987
Variant: Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.
„Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
„Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.“
— John Irving, book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
„Break, break, break
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.“
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892
"Break, Break, Break" (1842), st. 4
„Some people say we are on the verge of the Second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerfulness kept breaking in. I am not by nature a 'Whither America?“
— Alistair Cooke British journalist and broadcaster 1908 - 2004
man.
June 1968) In: Talk About America (1968
„Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, 1973, goodnight…“
— Vivian Stanshall English musician, artist and author 1943 - 1995
Tubular Bells: The original version of the Sailor's Hornpipe
Others
„Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.“
— Anne Rice American writer 1941
„HOBBES:
If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.“
— Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes