Quotes of Overnight - somelinesforyou

“ The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent. ”

- Carol Haney

“ Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. ”

- Shania Twain

“ You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway. ”

- Danny Kaye

“ Overnight I became a cottage industry. ”

- Jean Harris

“ Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. ”

- Eknath Easwaran

“ Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. ”

- George Carlin

“ Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. ”

- Eddie Cantor

“ Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Better Counsel comes overnight. ”

- Doris Lessing

“ Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. ”

- Monty Hall

“ Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. ”

- Diana Rankin

“ It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight… ”

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

“ I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. ”

- Gabrielle Union

“ In the second half of the 20th century our country launched the first artificial space satellite and sent the first man into space, built the first-ever passenger jet, the first nuclear reactor and the first quantum generator. Such a research potential cannot dissipate overnight no matter how adverse the circumstances. ”

- Valentina Tereshkova

“ I don't have to tell you that this is a very tough form of motorsports, and I don't care who you are - it can make heroes overnight and it tends to let people without a lot of experience make names for themselves almost immediately. Then all of the sudden they're on the outside looking in. ”

- Shirley Muldowney

“ Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and real change. The power to prevail. ”

- Eric Clark

“ One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight. ”

- James Thurber
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