The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides…

One of the mainstays of an army is its esprit-de-corps, that spirit which gives a soldier purpose and the endurance to carry on when…

— Anonymous

“My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman who lived at 5033 North Pennsylvania Street, taught me something very important. He said that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

— Anonymous

“My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about…

— Anonymous

“When K & I returned to the gingerbread house after taking Nana home, I was beyond exhausted. But I couldn't sleep, not for a…

— Felicia Luna Lemus

“Everywhere the grain stood ripe and the hot afternoon was full of the smell of the ripe wheat, like the smell of bread baking…

— Willa Cather

How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

— Fred MacMurray

“I want to write a book again,” I said to Sam on a blazingly hot afternoon on the veranda of the Red Tin Roof.”

— Jacques Pauw

“I remember standing against the bar in Budapest’s airport with a couple of workmates, some chaps from McLaren too, waiting for our homeward flight…

— Steve Matchett

“You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that's what I think. It's not that it's soothing or restful,…

— John Marsden

Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition,…

— Nancy Gibbs

Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can... Never…

— Tim Rice

“One of the special delights of my childhood was to go and see the cases of illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum, and to…

— Alan Watts