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I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night. -- Big Boi
I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. -- Artie Lange
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. -- Nigel Dennis
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? -- Manuel Puig
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating. -- Raymond Federman
Nocturnal with a love for night, I'd stay up to see sunlight... -- Donna Lynn Hope
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds. -- Louis Aragon
I remember last time I played Nocturnal Wonderland I dropped that 'Move 4 First Aid' mashup and people ripping their hair out... crazy night. -- Kaskade
Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten. -- Jean Genet
I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. -- Irwin Shaw
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life -- Irwin Shaw
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. -- John Banville
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I live a rock-star kind of life where I don't go to bed until 4 A.M. I'm very nocturnal. -- Katy Perry
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help. -- Siri Hustvedt
Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night. -- Jean Baudrillard
Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house. -- Jean Cocteau
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality. -- Siri Hustvedt
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in the evening. -- Charles Darwin
I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life. -- Orhan Pamuk
We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies. -- Charles Lamb
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age. -- Anthony Trollope
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. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield. -- Bat for Lashes
Ive hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you dont want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield. -- Bat for Lashes
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. -- Aristotle
Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark. -- Pablo Neruda
I am a chain-smoking, nocturnal, reality show junky. -- Brooklyn Hudson
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon. -- Henry Rollins
Felicity grimaced in agreement"No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one's butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy. -- Gail Carriger
You're not a morning person, are you? (Simone)I'm a Dream-Hunter/demon. By my very nature I'm nocturnal. That big yellow ball in the sky offends me to the very core of my being. (Xypher) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wake up to write stuff down all night. Useful things like this: To more efficiently make love nocturnally, I must combine the best characteristics of bats, bears, and my Uncle Norman who disappeared in the mountains in '94. -- Jarod Kintz
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream. -- Alessandro Baricco
The curve of your eyes goes around my heart,A round of dance and sweetness,Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle,And if I don't know any more all that I've lived throughIt's because I haven't always been seen by you. -- Paul Eluard
It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised by the errands born from the gap between what we can imagine and what we can in fact create. -- Michael Cunningham
I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep. -- Mark Rice
The blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing each projecting rock, each tree in a peculiar fashion, different from the way they looked by day. Everything seemed real but different than in the daytime. It was as if the world had a second face, a nocturnal face. -- Octavio Paz
Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of them flanked by a bedside table and a lamp. Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below. -- Milan Kundera
I'm also discovering that while they seem to believe that I do not require sleep, my husband (who also doubles as their father) has the ability to morph into an invisible and supremely evasive nocturnal being, with powers so stealthy as to evade capture by the aliens [children] that had invaded our once peaceful and quiet habitat [bedroom at night]. -- Dallas Louis
When you were awake, stretched out in your bed in the dark, shutters drawn, your thoughts would flow freely. They would grow obscure when you got up and opened the curtains. The violence of daylight would efface the nocturnal clarity. In the daytime, people were barriers, dividing you up, preventing you from hearing what you listened to at night: the voice of your brain. -- Édouard Levé
Wild geese fly south, creaking like anguished hinges; along the riverbank the candles of the sumacs burn dull red. It's the first week of October. Season of woolen garments taken out of mothballs; of nocturnal mists and dew and slippery front steps, and late-blooming slugs; of snapdragons having one last fling; of those frilly ornamental pink-and-purple cabbages that never used to exist, but are all over everywhere now. -- Margaret Atwood
Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths. -- Wallace Stevens
I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl. -- Thomston
Felicity grimaced in agreement. "No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one's butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy. -- Gail Carriger
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

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