Afternoon Quotes - Page 19

• The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).

  Alexandra Fuller

  Grateful, Rain, Night

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon!
  The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze
  His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;
  Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees;
  And birds of morning trim their bustling wings,
  And listen fondly--while the Blackbird sings.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Summer, Sweet, Song

  Frederick Tennyson (1854). “Days and Hours”, p.190

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

  Jeremy Irons

  Morning, Skis, I Can

  "Exclusive Sundance Interview with Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey and Writer-Director J.C. Chandor for MARGIN CALL". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 30, 2011.

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• Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.

  Rose Henniker Heaton

  Morning, Stupid, Sleep

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• 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.

  Michael Chabon

  Tuesday, Novelists, Reptiles

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• Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

  Nicholas Haslam

  Writing, Sunday, Paper

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• I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Book, Reading

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• My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things.

  Dante Hall

  Nice, Sunday, Player

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

  Sherman Austin

  Sister, Home, Naps

  Interview with Merlin Chowkwanyun, www.counterpunch.org. August 14, 2003.

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• I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

  Paz Vega

  Husband, Son, Littles

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• Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.

  Emanuel Celler

  Morning, Wine, School

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Home, Simple, White

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• All my days are themed.  Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design.  Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications.  Thursday is partnership and developers.  Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon.  Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.

  Jack Dorsey

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Ocean, Math, Boys

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• I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

  Sheena Easton

  Couple, School, Kids

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• My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

  Robert Ripley

  Friday, Morning, Aunt

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• 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.

  Orson Welles

  May, Vanishing, Century

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• China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

  Constance Spry

  Fire, Tea, Scent

  Constance Spry (1953). “A Constance Spry Anthology”

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• The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.

  Ken Livingstone

  Friday, Country, Cities

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• All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

  George Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Night

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2740, ShandonPress

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• The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Truth, Sunshine

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• If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

  David Brooks

  Morning, Sunset, Average

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• The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

  Teju Cole

  Morning, Mean, Emotional

  Teju Cole @tejucole, twitter.com. March 8, 2012.

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