Afternoon Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• I am always working on the go. I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life. Fortunately I am able to work from my home and can answer my e-mails in the morning, play tennis or kitesurf in the afternoon to keep fit and have meetings or phone calls in between.

  Richard Branson

  Morning, Home, Phones

  "The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged. There is no space for what wells up from the subconscious; those dreams and images live in deep still water and simply submerge when the day gets scattered.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Space, Water

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Waiting, Missing

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• Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

  C. Everett Koop

  Nature, Growing Up, Kids

  "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May.21, 2010.

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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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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Two, Tea

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

  Regis Philbin

  Morning, Crazy, Mean

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• 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.

  Joan Didion

  Needs, Done, Dinner

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71". Interview with Linda Kuehl, www.theparisreview.org. 1978.

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• There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Distance, Winter

  'There's a certain Slant of light' (c.1861)

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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 it there when I got back.

  Steve Forbert

  Guitar, Littles, Way

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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. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.

  Ana Ortiz

  Workout, Morning, Exercise

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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 method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique..., the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble.

  S. J. Perelman

  Summer, Discovery, August

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• How swiftly the strained honey
  of afternoon light
  flows into darkness
  
  and the closed bud shrugs off
  its special mystery
  in order to break into blossom:
  
  as if what exists, exists
  so that it can be lost
  and become precious

  Lisel Mueller

  Light, Order, Darkness

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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 dance, a little military tap.

  Barbara Cook

  Military, Tap Dancers, Four

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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, but an afternoon alone with a muscular masseur would ensnare her cousin far more effectively. And afterwards, while Mary lay sated and sleeping upon a massage table, wiser heads could determine the company's future. There were times, Elizabeth thought, when success in business demanded utter ruthlessness.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Cousin, Sleep, Business Success

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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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• 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 guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?

  Kaye Gibbons

  Jobs, Fear, Believe

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• Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.

  Walt Kelly

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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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 tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world's tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that's just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Drinking, Names, America

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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 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.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Mind, Matter

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . . The subject matter is 'relatable,' as my students like to say. Better still, though, is what you can learn about the craft of writing from this marvelous book. . . . Indeed, if you're looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.

  Blake Bailey

  Book, Writing, Men

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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, Casting

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• One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• A holocaust of an afternoon.

  Carlton Palmer

  Soccer, Football, Player

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