Best 220 quotes in «afternoon quotes» category

I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening.

I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.

I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn’t this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?

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. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.

In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.

I spent a week there one afternoon.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

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 can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

I went through the natural process that most actors go through. I brought myself out here, had an audition on a Wednesday; then had a call-back on Thursday, had a call-back on Friday and I had it by Friday afternoon.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

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 and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get a paycheck every Friday afternoon. So if we had not made pots that would sell it, would not have been possible for these people to be employed.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.