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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. -- Camille Paglia
I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think. -- Morag Joss
I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76. -- Ted Shackelford
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair. -- Iris Murdoch
Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers. -- Kenny Rogers
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. -- Umberto Eco
Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives. -- Erika Slezak
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I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go. -- Mark Ryden
I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime. -- Heather Morris
I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. -- Jimmy Cannon
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. -- Gail Godwin
Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows. -- Bill Copeland
On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime. -- Jimmy Kimmel
I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime. -- Sylvia Earle
On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development. -- Ted Shackelford
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night. -- Jennifer Morrison
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting. -- Gavin Rossdale
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered. -- Josh Duhamel
There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long. -- Bill Cosby
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. -- Toni Cade Bambara
I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself. -- Olivia Wilde
The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less. -- Rachael Ray
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map. -- Camille Paglia
I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans. -- Alison Sweeney
Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that. -- Psy
Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic five days a week. Before there was Joan Collins's Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan on 'Dynasty,' there was Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery on 'All My Children.' -- Andy Cohen
Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper. -- Elizabeth Bishop
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing -- Chinua Achebe
In your daytime life you have to be more strict. -- Eddy de Clercq
I'm up early 'cuz ain't enough light in the daytime -- Pimp C
I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC. -- Jim Lampley
the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul. -- Amelia Barr
I don't know enough about daytime, I think, to say anything. -- Melissa Joan Hart
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones; or masturbate during the daytime. -- Bo
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime -- Jimmy Cannon
Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV. -- James Ellroy
In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight. -- Corbin Bernsen
[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime. -- Elvis Presley
What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience. -- Art Bell
In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody. -- Eddy de Clercq
Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it. -- Denise Levertov
Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man. -- Diogenes Laertius
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all. -- Imelda Staunton
Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night. -- Chess Desalls
Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products. -- Steven Magee
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place. -- Anna Kavan
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. -- Ernest Hemingway
I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad. -- Margaret Carlson
I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime. -- Miles Teller
Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job. -- Craig Ferguson
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. -- James Thurber
It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them. -- Jandy Nelson
In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you. -- Eddy de Clercq
I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women. -- Ice T
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime. -- Haruki Murakami
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel. -- Robert Grudin
I like daytime dates now. By the time night comes, I'm so exhausted and I feel like I'm no fun at night anymore. -- Chrissy Teigen
I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps. -- Camille Paglia
I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show. -- Greg Behrendt
Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every week. -- Tyler Christopher
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low. -- Samuel Goldwyn
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime. -- Martin Short
When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime. -- Aeschylus
I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night. -- Jason Priestley
I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic. -- Miranda Hart
If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming. -- Dean Koontz
Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating. -- Chuck D
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot. -- Sherman Alexie
The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over. -- Ryan Bingham
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness"¦ -- Guillermo del Toro
At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
You know those guys that go to the strip club at the daytime? If you're at a strip club, and the sun is out, you got some problems! -- Chris Rock
Many ordinary Americans make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity and disaster, as we are seeing. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Many ordinary Americans make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity and disaster, as we are seeing. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans. -- Garrison Keillor
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude. -- Gaston Bachelard
In the daytime, I know that they're (Russians) close. But at night, my optimism abandons me, I buckle. The night is German, and who am I against the night? -- Ana Novac
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. -- Philip Jose Farmer
I want to make movies on a soundstage. They close the door and it's nighttime, daytime. If it has to rain, they make the rain. That's what I like. -- Christopher Walken
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. -- Philip Jose Farmer
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered." -- Josh Duhamel
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered. -- Josh Duhamel
I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic. -- Charles Bukowski
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives. -- Stephen King
This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted. -- Lindsey Buckingham
I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them. -- Nathan Fillion
The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places. -- Suzanne Collins
I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas. -- Scott Adkins
When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by. -- Cecily Brown
A man commented to his lunch companion: My wife had a funny dream last night. She dreamed she'd married a millionaire. You're lucky, sighed the companion. My wife dreams that in the daytime. -- Sam Ewing
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My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes. -- Amy Weber
My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes. -- Amy Weber
My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened. -- Charlaine Harris
It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding. -- Jamie Bamber
Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless. -- Chanakya
Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day. -- David Lynch
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye. -- Margaret Atwood
You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows. -- Victoria Wood

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