Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.
I live a rock-star kind of life where I don't go to bed until 4 A.M. I'm very nocturnal.
I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.