Quotes and Sayings About Afternoon
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It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
-- Amy Neftzger -
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
-- Anne Lamott -
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
-- Anthony Burgess -
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
-- Barbara Cook -
If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
-- Benjamin Jowett -
We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it
-- Betty White -
If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.
-- Bill Dixon -
It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?
-- Billy Wilder -
If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.
-- Carlos Drummond de Andrade -
But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
-- Carson McCullers -
Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all ...
-- Carson McCullers -
I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.
-- Cindy Crawford -
The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.
-- Colleen Haskell -
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
-- Constance Spry -
We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.
-- Dana Spiotta -
I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.
-- Deke Slayton -
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.
-- Denis McDonough -
I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
-- Edie Falco -
Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
-- Edward Thomas -
This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson -
If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick -
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
-- Emile Zola -
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
-- Gene Tierney