Afternoon Quotes

677 quotes by 568 authors

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as… — Anthony Bourdain
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second,… — Geraldine Brooks
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go… — Terry Brooks
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. — Anthony Burgess
I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends,… — David Byrne
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. — Jimmy Carter
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. — Barbara Cartland
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin… — Maya Angelou
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. — Hank Aaron
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers. — Ellen Glasgow
I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been… — Damon Hill
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most… — Barbara Holland
When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo… — Jerry Lewis
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon. — David Niven
Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more… — R.D. Blackmore
The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a… — Tom Weir

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