Evening quotes
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Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
-- Aime Cesaire -
An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.
-- Albert Einstein -
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs.
-- Amy Hoggart -
When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.
-- Amy Poehler -
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
-- Anais Nin -
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Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
-- Art Buchwald -
I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.
-- Arthur Symons -
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It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
-- Ashley Judd -
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.
-- Belinda Peregrin -
I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
-- Bernadette Peters -
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
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The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
-- Beverly Sills -
My best evenings are at home with my lady.
-- Billy Zane -
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
-- Bjork -
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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
-- Brad Pitt -
Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day." ~Fablehaven - Rise of the Evening Star
-- Brandon Mull -
The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
-- Carnie Wilson -
How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
-- Carol Ann Duffy -
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Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.
-- Catherine McCormack -
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
-- Cesare Pavese -
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.
-- Chevy Chase -
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As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous...
-- Claude Monet -
If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.
-- Deion Sanders -
Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
-- Diana Vreeland -
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Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
I never want anyone to have a bad evening because I caused it.
-- Doug Morris -
notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening
-- e. e. cummings -
Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.
-- Edgar Degas -
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One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it
-- Eli Wallach -
A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
-- Emily Dickinson -
We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.
-- Emma Donoghue -
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.
-- Fujiwara no Teika -
A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!
-- Gaston Leroux -
We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
-- George Washington -
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"
-- George William Curtis -
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
-- Gertrude Stein -
What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.
-- Giacomo Leopardi -
Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues
-- Gram Parsons -
Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
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The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
-- Harold H. Greene -
I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.
-- Henri -
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.
-- Henry Twells -
Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
-- Heraclitus -
Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas.
-- Holland Cotter -
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
-- Jack Steinberger -
Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
-- Jackson Browne -
The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.
-- James Frey -
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Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.
-- Jane Kenyon -
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.
-- Jim Henson -
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??
-- Jim Morrison -
To us and a wonderful evening of love making.
-- Joe Dunthorne -
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
In the evening Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.
-- John Ashbery -
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
-- John Berger -
O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
-- John Keats -
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There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
-- John Lithgow -
Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.
-- John Norquist -
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
-- John of the Cross -
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say
-- John Prine -
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Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
-- John Suckling -
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
-- John Woolman -
The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
-- Joseph Joubert -
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
-- Jurgen E. Schrempp -
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening
-- Karen Hawkins -
As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.
-- Kate Bush -
[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.
-- Kim Campbell -
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The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.
-- Kin Hubbard -
I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.
-- Kitty Carlisle -
I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.
-- Larry McMurtry -
No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
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I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...]
-- Lauren Child -
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.
-- Lawrence Welk -
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!
-- Lewis Carroll -
Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.
-- Liv Ullmann -
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I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
-- Lorna Luft -
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
-- Mae West -
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal -
In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
-- Margaret Atwood -
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I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum’thing has always been and always will be you.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
-- Marvin Hamlisch -
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
-- Matsuo Basho -
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Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.
-- Maureen Dowd -
On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.
-- Mercy Otis Warren -
There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.
-- Milla Jovovich -
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
