Saturday Afternoon Quotes:

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

- Liam Neeson

topic: Friday, Monday, Two, Saturday Afternoon

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

- Lou Holtz

topic: Winning, Games, Afternoon, Saturday Afternoon

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Book, Next Week, Afternoon, Joy Of Reading, Saturday Afternoon

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Real, Garden, Play, Real Work, Chardonnay

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

- W. S. Gilbert

topic: Luck, Afternoon, Surprise, Foreseen, Saturday Afternoon

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

- Sydney Pollack

topic: Art, Growing Up, Thinking, Saturday Afternoon

Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because he makes me see the possibilities and makes me feel like writing. There are certain writers who put you in the mood to write. In the way a whiff of a cigar will bring back memories of a ballgame on a Saturday afternoon, reading Salinger makes me want to get to the typewriter.

- Robert Cormier

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Memories, Reading, Writing, Ballgame, Salinger

Kids want to be professional footballers and I think they need to know what it takes to get there - you know, the dedication. People see footballers playing on a Saturday afternoon in front of the TV cameras, but from a Monday to Friday people don't really see what goes on.

- John Terry

source: Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

topic: Friday, Monday, Kids, Saturday Afternoon

Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

topic: Struggle, People, Appreciate, Adulthood, Mopping

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.

- Betty Smith

topic: Beautiful, Summer, New York, Williamsburg, Somber

A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.

- Donald Horne

topic: Sports, Golf, Men, Saturday Afternoon

I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was Funny Girl that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldnt play football, so I stayed in, and I watched Funny Girl.

- Sean Harris

topic: Girl, Football, Play, Funny Girl, Streisand

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

- Carl Sagan

topic: Couple, Lying, Reading, Galaxy, Numinous

By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

- Andrea Barthwell

topic: Fun, Children, Medicine, Drug Abuse, Saturday Afternoon

Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Golf, Boys, Talking, Saturday Afternoon, Idle Gossip

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

topic: Military, Afternoon, Four, Tap Dancers, Tap Dance

I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.

- Dorothy Hodgkin

source: Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

topic: Running, July, Rays, Saturday Afternoon, Insulin

Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.

- Mark Driscoll

topic: Dog, Jesus, Kings, Tofu, King David

It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday.

- Leopold Infeld

source: Leopold Infeld (1980). “Quest: An Autobiography”, p.324, American Mathematical Soc.

topic: Sunday, Life And Death, Transition, Between Life And Death, Painless

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

- Dinah Shore

topic: Father, Thinking, Afternoon, Saturday Afternoon

I don't believe in cancer walks. Well, I believe in them because they exist but I'd rather just give money straight up and save my Saturday afternoon. I can make my own t-shirt, that's not incentive. Plus I don't think cancer responds to how far people walk. I don't think cancer's sitting at home, 'What? How many people walked how far? How many people walked how far wearing the same shirt? That's crazy! I'm out of here!' Remission.

- Hannibal Buress

topic: Crazy, Cancer, Believe, Remission, Saturday Afternoon

If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.

- Alex Agase

topic: Monday, Play, Giving, Saturday Afternoon

Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.

- Christina Baldwin

topic: Mom, Spiritual, Monday, Spiritual Journey, Saturday Afternoon

The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control.

- Tom Weir

topic: Soccer, Mom, Hate, Remote Control, World Love

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Saturday Afternoon, Higher Learning

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

- Luke Harding

topic: Monday, Mean, Law, Saturday Afternoon