Famous quotes containing the words active and/or night:
“I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The wind blew all my wedding-day,
And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)