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
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses,… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“HAPPINESS I ASKED the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography. — June Foray Copy Share Image
The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
I approached photography the only way that I knew how to approach anything: as a job. I would get up, photograph all… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
And then there's this guy, Barack Obama, who lost - I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in… — Leopold Infeld Copy Share Image