Afternoon Quotes · Page 20

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP…

— Steven Morrissey

The only gambling I do is on a Saturday afternoon when I might put on two wingers or two strikers.

— Alan Pardew

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's…

— Carl Jung

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front…

— Victor Borge

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing…

— Richard M. Nixon

If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat.…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in…

— Henry David Thoreau

I do 20 minutes of transcendental meditation every morning, and I try to do it in the afternoon, too.

— Daisy Lowe

Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't…

— Neal Boortz

I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for…

— Brian Clough

I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to…

— Lester Bangs

The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight.…

— Nobu Matsuhisa

It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking--talking about how to protect her, actually--and…

— Cate Tiernan

I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's…

— Coleman Barks

What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a…

— Katherine Mansfield

John Kerry fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. He went for a Sunday afternoon ride, fell off in front of…

— Jay Leno

“Kansas afternoons in late summer are peculiar and wondrous things. Often they are pregnant, if not over-ripe, with a pensive and latent…

— P.S. Baber

She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches…

— Marisha Pessl

Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the…

— Thomas Harris

“It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent…

— George Orwell

Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never…

— Samuel R. Delany

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were…

— Tim O'Brien

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

— Tim Rice

In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the…

— Rick Santorum

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00…

— Tom Perez

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a…

— Robert Breault

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Jack Johnson

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

— Hank Aaron

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

— Henny Youngman

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

— Alan Kulwicki

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

— Pat Conroy

I would give my back tooth - the one with the silver filling - to eat afternoon tea with my mother.

— Grace Dent

So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our…

— John Steinbeck

When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind…

— Harold E. Varmus

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

— Richard Nelson Bolles

Being on 'Bandstand' was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street.…

— Chubby Checker

I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.

— Lil' Romeo

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

— Raymond Carver