Best Afternoon Quotations
677 Afternoon quotes by 558 unique authors
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When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had…
— James Keller
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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
— Aneurin Bevan
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I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
— Gore Vidal
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There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have…
— H.G. Wells
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In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned…
— Veronica Rossi
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Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She…
— Unknown Author
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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and…
— Stephen Leacock
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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before…
— John Buford
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Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time…
— Jay Leno
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I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I…
— Lee Child
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Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still…
— Italo Calvino
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You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked…
— John Newcombe
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I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and…
— Andrea Pirlo
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Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.
— Keith Ward
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I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything,…
— Jay Mohr
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Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet…
— Marcel Proust
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The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
— Isabella Beeton
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Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes…
— Mario Cantone
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Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and…
— Mark Driscoll
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The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the…
— Sparky Anderson
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My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for…
— Andrew Solomon
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Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you…
— Joan Halifax
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