Definition of Midnight

Midnight

The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.

Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom.

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Midnight Quotations

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt Whitman

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
H. P. Lovecraft

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
Jerry Falwell

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Dean Koontz

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
Casey Stengel

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
Casey Stengel

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
Jodie Foster

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
Bram Stoker

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.
Reggie Jackson

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
Bob Geldof

You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
John Zorn

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.
Joe Pantoliano

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.
John Hutton

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
Mercedes McCambridge

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.
James Daly

I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
Don Rickles

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.
Debi Mazar

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
Marguerite Young

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.
Robert Trout

24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day.
Stephen Hopkins

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Midnight Translations

midnight in Danish is midnat
midnight in Dutch is middernacht
midnight in French is minuit
midnight in German is Mitternacht
midnight in Italian is mezzanotte
midnight in Portuguese is meia-noite
midnight in Spanish is medianoche
midnight in Swedish is midnatt

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