Overnight Quotations

The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

I was a big fan of this guy named Art Bell - I don't know if you've heard of him before. I listened to his overnight show for years, and he had all these guys on at one time or another, and they talked about psychic spies and remote viewing and all that stuff. I actually was fascinated by it - more about the guys than about what they were doing.

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?

'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.

'Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?'

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.

One of the individuals was being held by a police officer, a uniformed officer who was protected, and it appears from the debrief that we have done overnight that the suspect managed to break free from the officer, the two of them have then literally, in fighting, gone into the kitchen area, where the suspect has managed to grab hold of a knife,

My suspicion is that on a short-term basis the market was oversold. It got spanked this morning with Nokia from overnight and the free fall (in Nokia stock) has stabilized to come back a point off its low,

My take is that the Fed will continue to raise overnight rates until it feels it has moved from a stimulative to a neutral policy stance. That will likely take the funds rate to 4 per cent-to-4.25 per cent by yearend.

No one should fool anyone that this is going to happen overnight ... because the health system is so complex.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

Mrs. Betty Ford remained in Eisenhower Medical Center overnight following tests late on Thursday afternoon. She has returned home and will resume a normal schedule.

Mild profit-taking set in and partly erased earlier gains. I believe the sustainability of the index above the 16,000 point level would really depend on the fund flow and market sentiment. Mixed showing at Wall Street overnight may have kept some traders cautious.

Most young people and their families will go to wherever the treatment is based. But it does create enormous challenges particularly for anyone who is on a low income or is perhaps a single parent . . . If you are going to centralise you need to support people to cope with journeys and overnight stays.

The price of oil and the weaker euro is absolutely having an impact, ... This is a market searching for a reason to go higher but this is a core root economic problem that could exist and the market is quickly coming to the belief that there is no overnight fix.

The price of oil and the weaker euro is absolutely having an impact. This is a market searching for a reason to go higher but this is a core root economic problem that could exist and the market is quickly coming to the belief that there is no overnight fix.

I have an issue with my heart, but it won't be a life-threatening situation. I am staying overnight in the hospital to get some further evaluation and tests done. The doctors will then give me some options on how to treat this issue.

Key resistance was broken overnight and, as we have been building support and healthy consolidation over the last week or so, now we have a firm base to move higher.

I am too scared to buy bonds. I haven't seen any investor purchase debt recently as it's hard to know when yields will stop rising amid speculation the central bank will raise its key overnight rate.

Gains in the market are fund-led. Trading in the region remains relatively strong with funds pursuing select stocks, among them metals. Overnight gains on Wall Street also helped sentiment.

Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.

I don't think people need it. They're looking for it because they're in overnight withdrawal.

But that revolution did not happen overnight and it did not happen because of September 11. He used, he seized upon September 11 as an opportunity to leapfrog in his foreign policy, the outlines of which by that time had been complete.

'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.

Basically it was an overnight thing. We have zero clues.

I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.

To date, Tampa has enjoyed a very strong race meeting. The first 48 days of the season have been exceptional in terms quality and growth of live handle both on and off track. As a result, overnight purses paid are up a respectable 6% over the 2004-05 season, and with several key race days ahead of us, I truly believe that another record meet will be completed on May 7, 2006.

Having said this, the rise in U.S. rates overnight does suggest there is scope for another test below $1.20 in the euro today, but we would look to square shorts at $1.1950.

What I said was not that we didn't anticipate that there's a possibility the levees will break. What I said was, in this storm, what happened is, the storm passed and passed without the levees breaking on Monday. Tuesday morning, I opened newspapers and saw headlines that said 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet,' which surprised people. What surprised them was that the levee broke overnight and the next day and, in fact, collapsed. That was a surprise.

I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall.

He would go on overnight canoe trips with his friends as long as he could.

Historically, the Fed stops when the inversion of the overnight rate to the 10-year is about 30 to 40 basis points.

He should be fine. They'll keep him overnight (Sunday) for observation.

We've been very fortunate. It was an overnight success for us.

My own personal concern is, this is not 1918, ... We have much more rapid movement today. Something that took weeks can happen overnight with a plane.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making, ... Id been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

I was with him in the store and I was with him in bed when he was taken. Overnight everything was changed. Innocence was gone. Things I experienced that night, I never even dreamed of happening. It had a negative effect on my life but I made the best of what I had. I didn't let it destroy me.

Part of the recovery overnight (in the price of oil) may have been due to anti-Israeli protests in Jordan, where 30,000 protestors had to be driven back from the boarder by security forces,

Our last decade had been the most successful of Iowa State football. You can't discount that overnight because a 19-year-old student puts the ball on the ground at the 1-yard line.

People often forget that the company has an 18-percent share of the overnight delivery market, ... But the German giant express delivery company DHL wants to have a minority stake, and they could do a lot to Airborne to keep it flying again in terms of market share.

I see a guy that's working his butt off to get his rhythm back and get his recognition, and he's done a lot of great things. We knew this wasn't going to be an overnight process.

I think FedEx's stock will be under a little bit of pressure, because UPS will be comparing and contrasting numbers. UPS saw volume growth of 14.5 percent on overnight product in the most recent quarter. FDX saw only 3.9 percent. It's too early to tell if UPS is taking away market share, but that will be the implication that comes out on the road show.

JGB prices dropped on firmer stock prices, a drop in US Treasury prices overnight and a pullback in the yen against the dollar.

It hasn't been like an overnight thing or even an over-the-summer thing. It's been a continuous process really since we signed him. His improvement's been constant, yet dramatic when you look at it.

It didn't swell up overnight like they say an ACL does, but we are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. He just got accepted to The Citadel and he's got a lot going for him right now, so I really hope everything works out OK because Clay is really our leader on the field.

Reports that I've had in now overnight are, I must admit, pretty bad,

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

Overnight the market priced in a catastrophe, but it doesn't look like that's actually what happened - especially on the crude side,

Over the course of the evening, nine went to the hospital through the emergency room. One stayed overnight for observation.

Over time, it should reduce the number of unrelated. It's going to take some time for that to happen, and it's not going to be an overnight fix.

Overall, the Intel mid-quarter update was quite bullish. I would suspect unless something major happens overnight you are looking at a higher opening based on the Intel news.

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

I think overnight there was another focus on the bank of Canada statement and it pushed aside the oil sell-off, as monetary policy is probably going to have a longer term role than oil.

I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.

I think our ultimate goal is to try to get people to come off the highway who normally may have just gotten gas, or maybe have just had lunch at Redstone, ... If they see our center and say 'let's drop in and see what else we can do,' our hope is that we'll be able to talk them into a full day stay maybe an overnight and increase our tourism revenue for our community.

It isn't something that will happen overnight and without discussion,

It is a fairly slow process. One ought not to expect too much in the way of overnight changes.

It got a boost from comments from Poole overnight so that brought euro/dollar down by half a big figure.

It is probably the biggest virus since the Love Bug. It went quiet overnight but took off again this morning when people started opening their e-mails.

While temperature will ease overnight the fires will continue to burn and we won't know the real damage until the morning.

The problem is you can't build a refinery overnight it takes a couple of years, so what we're probably going to see over the next 18 to 24 months is continued increases in prices.

We know standards will not improve overnight but we want to instill into the team the importance of fielding as a discipline and this process can begin by bringing Rhodes to Pakistan.

We don't have to deal with staying on the West Coast for an extra day or traveling overnight to get home. That's big for us, I think.

With the FOMC meeting less than one week away, and 10-year rates soon to be within 25 basis points of the overnight rate, it is difficult to picture the market remaining at these levels.

We have worked hard with our accommodations people to try to market our heritage and history to have people stay overnight when they come to town.

We know that this initiative is not an overnight thing. It's going to take time.

We could get to a table within hours. We could meet overnight and we could avert tomorrow.

I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and I forgot how scared and tired I was, and I thought, 'This is what reading should be.' I'm utterly transported out of my current situation.

The activities overnight have undoubtedly caused some concern to people at the Greenacres caravan site,

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day

The 10-year is not reflective of the fact the overnight rate is going to 4.75 percent in six weeks. It may have to do with carry. As long as you're earning positive carry, people don't mind holding 10-year notes.

We're calling for temperatures, probably approaching zero, if not colder than that for overnight lows. It's the winter we've been waiting for at least some of us.

You are going to have nights that you are not going to shoot as well as you would like. That is something that can be corrected overnight by getting a little extra shooting in. We have players that can do that, so we are going to bounce back quickly.

We envisage flights arriving in Perth around 9.30 on each of those six nights, and then the eastern-bound service departing at 11.30 for an overnight flight.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.

We have plans for other weekends to set bridge beams. We anticipate following the same type of format with the overnight closures.

We heard overnight that there was one confirmed death of a British citizen.

We're an overnight success that's taken five years.

We didn't want the overnight radio hit success thing. We wanted to build it. We want to tour. We've been a band for years. We want to get that crowd. We want a devoted, good fan base, and we've just been doing it and doing it. It just feels so much better. It's like you work harder and it's more earned. It feels real. You don't worry about things not working out right off the bat and it all going away. I just feel better about what we're doing.

Walt Disney World engineers and ride system experts completed a thorough inspection of the attraction overnight and found it to be operating properly. A representative from the state Bureau of Fair Rides Inspection monitored the ride inspection and testing.

We still have quite a bit of cloud cover which is stopping the overnight temperatures dropping too severely. It is going to be cold but there is a suggestion that it could be a bit warmer on Saturday.

We're keeping them on the snow shift in case we get any weather tonight. It's really cold, and we don't want to see any ice in the overnight hours.

We still have a mission to perform at Fort Rucker. So we won't just pack up and leave overnight and then set up shop at Redstone the next day. It will be phased in over a period of time, but I can't see that happening anytime sooner than about four years from now.

We probably sold about 500 tickets overnight and this morning. We didn't get down under 1,000 like we wanted, but it was enough movement that hopefully the momentum will continue. We also heard from a number of our season ticket-holders that were disappointed because they weren't going to be able to get to the game and wanted to watch it on TV.

The overnight rain will be absorbed by the dry ground and lessen the intensity of the active fire, but is not enough to extinguish the fires.

We are not going to see a significant effect overnight as a result of an OPEC agreement. I don't see prices going any higher for the time being, but it will take some time to see the increase of supply push down the price of fuel.

We are not going to see a significant impact overnight as a result of an OPEC agreement. I don't see prices going any higher for the time being, but it will take some time to see the increase of supply push down the price of fuel.

What we're trying to do is establish a real fan base, not like an overnight fan base, because the ones that you work for stay forever.

Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks

While overall sentiment is positive and fund flow remains strong, the sharp rise in oil prices overnight and interest rate fears gave investors an excuse to sell.