Late Afternoon Quotes

• How did it get so late so soon?

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Time, Night

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• I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Education, Technology

  Newsweek magazine, October 29, 2001.

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• How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Birthday, Summer

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• The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.

  Stephen King

  Sweet, Oil, Childhood

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

  Joan Didion

  Sky, West Coast, Afternoon

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• I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Weed, Morning

  "Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy", 1978.

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• To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hipster, Afternoon, Literature

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

  Robert Breault

  Philosophical, Shadow, Afternoon

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• I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

  Stephen King

  Noon, Prime, Late

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon.

  Troye Sivan

  Sleep, Commitment, Afternoon

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• Solitude stands by the window
  She turns her head as I walk in the room
  I can see by her eyes she's been waiting
  Standing in the slant of the late afternoon

  Suzanne Vega

  Eye, Waiting, Solitude

  Song: Solitude Standing, Album: Solitude Standing

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• A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?" He answered, "You are watching the sunset." The genius responded, "That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn."

  Jeremy Kagan

  Sunset, Orange, Color

  Jeremy Kagan (1998). “The Jewish Self: Recovering Spirituality in the Modern World”, p.37, Feldheim Publishers

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• During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Doctors, Years, Numbers

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• 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.

  Robert Caro

  Writing, Long, Afternoon

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• Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her.

  Peter Lik

  Photography, Mother, Nature

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• During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric planes that extent out into infinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Afternoon

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• It's of being alone with my dad. He drove a truck for a living. But he had a few free hours in the middle of the day, between the morning shift and the late afternoon shift. Because I was the youngest of nine, I could have him all to myself when they were at school. We'd watch movies at home, or go to the movies, and he introduced me to the guys who still inspire me today.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Morning, Dad, Home

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Army

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• This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.

  Susan Hill

  Morning, Small Changes, Light

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• Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.

  Perry Como

  Children, Home, Kids

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• Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.

  Jean Webster

  Writing, Yellow, White

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• Sunshine of late afternoon--
  On the glass tray
  
  a glass pitcher, the tumbler
  turned down, by which
  
  a key is lying--And the
  immaculate white bed

  William Carlos Williams

  Lying, Sunshine, Keys

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.372, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore.

  Dave Pelzer

  Beautiful, Ocean, Blow

  Dave Pelzer (2010). “A Child Called It”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• 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 words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Lying, Home, Science

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• It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wall, Fog, Blue

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.250, Penguin

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