Best Afternoon Wisdom
677 Afternoon quotes by 558 unique authors
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The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin.…
— James Carlos Blake
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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
— Jane Birkin
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People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
— David Walliams
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Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the…
— Joan D. Chittister
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This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.
— Jimmy Carter
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Until you've been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon - you've never been kissed.
— Woody Allen
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
— Arthur Golden
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During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in…
— Peter Golenbock
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I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.
— Steve Lukather
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I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from…
— Paul Westerberg
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It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder…
— Billy Wilder
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There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find…
— Steve Forbert
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The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
— Robert MacNeil
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I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.
— Cleo Moore
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I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast.…
— Ana Ortiz
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And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never…
— Clive Barker
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One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest…
— S. J. Perelman
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap…
— Barbara Cook
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Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse,…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
— Amy Neftzger
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That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was…
— Kaye Gibbons
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Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
— Lou Holtz
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America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain…
— James Norwood Pratt
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Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind…
— Walter Isaacson
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