Definition of Overnight

Overnight

The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening.

In the fore part of the night last past; in the evening before; also, during the night; as, the candle will not last overnight.

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Overnight Quotations

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn

I was an overnight sensation.
Elvis Presley

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
Jessica Savitch

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

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort

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

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
Madeleine Albright

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.
Kevin Bacon

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
Sargent Shriver

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
Bo Bennett

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

I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something.
Jeremy Lin

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.
Lindsay Lohan

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
Richard Simmons

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
Harrison Ford

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
Sting

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
Nicholas D. Kristof

It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.
Kimbra

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
James Levine

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
James Daly

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

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.
Priscilla Presley

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.
Compay Segundo

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.
Katie Holmes

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.
Wietse Venema

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
J. D. Hayworth

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.
Frank Lampard

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
Rick Renzi

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.
Robbie Coltrane

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Overnight Translations

overnight in German is Nacht.., am Vorabend

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