Afternoon famous quotes

It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
-- Amy Neftzger

#Friday #Alcohol #Afternoon

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
-- Anne Lamott

#Real #Real Life #Afternoon

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Mind #Afternoon #Awareness

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

#Good Life #Night #Afternoon

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

#Military #Afternoon #Four

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#College #Scary #Afternoon

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it
-- Betty White

#Book #Phones #Afternoon

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

#Morning #Done #Afternoon

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

#Smell #Hot #Afternoon

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.
-- Carlos Drummond de Andrade

#Blue #Desire #Afternoon

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

#Atheist #Heart #Afternoon

Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all ...
-- Carson McCullers

#Sunday #Afternoon #Sunday Afternoons

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

#Afternoon #Suits #Scabs

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.
-- Cleo Moore

#Naps #Afternoon

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

#Waiting #Afternoon #Sometimes

China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
-- Constance Spry

#Fire #Tea #Afternoon

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

#Long #Lazy #Afternoon

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

#Nice #Feet #Afternoon

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.
-- Denis McDonough

#Sunday #Community #Afternoon

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

#Forgive Me #Forgiving #Afternoon

I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
-- Edie Falco

#Naps #Afternoon #Able

Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
-- Edward Thomas

#June #Names #Afternoon

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

#Morning #Writing #Afternoon

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

#Morning #Twenties #Afternoon

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

#Taken #Afternoon #Belief

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

#Passion #Garden #Afternoon

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Years #Afternoon #Next

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

#Happiness #Past #Afternoon

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

#Garden #Years #Afternoon

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
-- Gene Tierney

#Long #Afternoon #Talent

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
-- Gustave Flaubert

#Morning #Afternoon

I spent a week there one afternoon.
-- Harry Chapin

#Afternoon #Week

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.
-- Haruki Murakami

#Lonely #Ego #Afternoon

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Clever #Dining #Afternoon

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Good Morning #Society #Afternoon

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.
-- Humphrey Bogart

#Drinking #Afternoon #Worst

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
-- Isabella Beeton

#Cake #Tea #Afternoon

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
-- Ivor Novello

#Home #Giving #Afternoon

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
-- J. D. Salinger

#Crazy #Sun #Afternoon

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.
-- Jack Johnson

#Wool #Sunglasses #Afternoon

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.
-- Jackie French

#Morning #Night #Afternoon

But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
-- Jean Rhys

#Afternoon #Golden #Lasts

It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
-- Jean Rhys

#Thinking #Afternoon #Strange

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
-- Jeff Lindsay

#Afternoon #Chance #Showers

When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.
-- Jenna Ushkowitz

#School #Bagels #Afternoon

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Morning #Afternoon #Skis

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.
-- Jess Walter

#Fall #Afternoon #Might

Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.
-- Jethro Tull

#Death #Tea #Afternoon

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
-- Jim Henson

#Afternoon #Television #Littles

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
-- Joan Didion

#Sky #West #Afternoon

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
-- John Buford

#Enemy #Entering #Afternoon

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
-- John Gresham Machen

#Class #Evil #Afternoon

But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
-- Jonathan Tropper

#Naps #Afternoon #Sometimes

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
-- Jorge Luis Borges

#Afternoon #Hours

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.
-- Kamahl

#Afternoon #Lifetime #Creation

If she cries, I want to wear pants for a week," I offered. "Done," Maxon said. "And if she doesn't, you owe me a walk around the grounds tomorrow afternoon." "You drive a hard bargain, sir, but I accept.
-- Kiera Cass

#Pants #Done #Afternoon

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
-- Kit Williams

#Afternoon #Wednesday #Practicals

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
-- Lin Yutang

#Men #Afternoon #Clock

Have you ever noticed it for some reason you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world, the only thing to do is sit around a cocktail lounge for the afternoon?
-- Lizabeth Scott

#Afternoon #World #Want

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

#Winning #Games #Afternoon

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
-- Marcel Proust

#Death #Connections #Afternoon

Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.
-- Margery Fish

#Weed #Garden #Afternoon

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
-- Martina Hingis

#Kids #Tennis #Afternoon

He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it.
-- Mary Gaitskill

#Disappointment #Lunch #Afternoon

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
-- Maurice Gibb

#Garden #Afternoon #Building

In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.
-- Megan Whalen Turner

#Queens #Kings #Afternoon

Honestly, Im living my fantasy. Its being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.
-- Meredith Vieira

#Games #Fire #Afternoon

Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.
-- Michael Chabon

#Tuesday #Reptiles #Afternoon

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.
-- Mickey Mantle

#Names #Fans #Afternoon

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.
-- Muddy Waters

#Men #Voice #Afternoon

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.
-- Nick Swisher

#Spring #Oakland #Afternoon

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.
-- Patrick MacGill

#Soldier #Meals #Afternoon

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.
-- Patty Loveless

#Thinking #Trying #Afternoon

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time
-- Paul Reiser

#Dream #People #Afternoon

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
-- Peter Straub

#Afternoon #Liquid #Bedtime

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.
-- R.D. Blackmore

#Beer #Afternoon #Half

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
-- Ralph Ellison

#Winter #Ice #Afternoon

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.
-- Ray Davies

#Philosophy #Taken #Afternoon

The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.
-- Richard Kadrey

#Mom #Secret #Afternoon

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.
-- Richard Russo

#Distance #Intellectual #Afternoon

I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn’t this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?
-- Richard Siken

#Afternoon #World #Tone

I'm an afternoon person.
-- Rita Hayworth

#Afternoon #Persons

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
-- Robert Breault

#Philosophical #Shadow #Afternoon

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
-- Robert Caro

#Writing #Long #Afternoon

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
-- Robert Hass

#Evening #Afternoon #Blackberries

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
-- Simon Callow

#Weekend #Afternoon #Evening

Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.
-- Spike Dykes

#Football #College #Afternoon

There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Missing #Afternoon #Way

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.
-- Steve Lukather

#Music #Guitar #Afternoon

I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk.
-- Steve Martin

#Morning #Marijuana #Afternoon

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.
-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Passion #Night #Afternoon

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
-- T. S. Eliot

#Morning #Coffee #Afternoon

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
-- Thomas de Quincey

#Sunday #Afternoon #Earth

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.
-- Timothy Findley

#Afternoon #Body #Ordinary

He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.
-- Tony Gubba

#Football #Afternoon #Might

Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon.
-- Troye Sivan

#Sleep #Commitment #Afternoon

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

#Luck #Afternoon #Surprise

Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
-- Walker Percy

#Home #Heart #Afternoon

Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.
-- Walter Isaacson

#Jobs #Mind #Afternoon

[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.
-- William Goldman

#Wish #Movement #Afternoon