But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I won the Premier League and played for England but it seems everyone always remembers me best for swearing live on BBC… — Micah Richards Copy Share Image
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and… — George Benson Copy Share Image
She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
When I was a little-leaguer, I was sort of famous for stealing bases - and it started only because my mom wanted… — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that,… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I remember I did quite a lot of interviews when the book and the CD came out, and I did a drivetime… — David Toop Copy Share Image
That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's… — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book. — Chris Klein Copy Share Image
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid! — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons. — Joleon Lescott Copy Share Image
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take… — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
You can't beat a traditional afternoon tea - I drink about 10 cups of tea a day and have a very sweet tooth. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway,… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
