American Saturday Night

Famous quotes containing the words saturday night, american, saturday and/or night:

“Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.”
—Sammy Cahn (1913–1993)

“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“The night knows nothing of the chants of night.
It is what it is as I am what I am:
And in perceiving this I best perceive myself
And you.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)