Afternoons Quotes

81 Afternoons quotes by 73 unique authors

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when… — Douglas Adams
Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you… — Kate Braverman
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It… — Ray Bradbury
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel… — Sarah Dunn
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. — Alice Hoffman
I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still… — Hal Borland
I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when… — Jean Rhys
But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so… — Sarah Vowell
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. — Robert Hass
This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do. — Margaret Atwood
The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes. — Richard Kadrey
I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt.… — Laurell K. Hamilton
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was… — Nicholas Sparks
She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people… — Marisha Pessl
Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs… — Charles Baudelaire
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden… — Deborah Moggach
My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used… — David Wenham
Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work. — Luke Harding
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting… — Nancy Gibbs
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying… — Robert Hass
Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around. — Johnny Rivers
For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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