A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't… — Ban Johnson Copy Share Image
This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of… — John Sebastian Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed it for some reason you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world,… — Lizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio]… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
What we have got to do - especially with younger people, especially with people not heavily involved in the political process -… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I went to some sports camps when I was really young and hated it. So I changed and went to camps where… — Jane Badler Copy Share Image
After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives… — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th.… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure… — Mario Cantone Copy Share Image
Mornings and afternoons are my family time and I'm lucky that I can drop the kids off at school, I don't have… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
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