Afternoon Quotes - Page 28

• I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.

  Max Pam

  Hippie, Squares, Circles

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• I approached photography the only way that I knew how to approach anything: as a job. I would get up, photograph all morning, stop and have lunch, and then, photograph all afternoon. I didn't think that I had to wait for some inspiration.

  Thomas Roma

  Photography, Morning, Jobs

  Interview with Alex Klein, Bettina Shzu, www.museomagazine.com. 2000.

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• Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.

  J. L. Austin

  Men, Thinking, Drawing

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• But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

  Frank Bidart

  Book, Giving, Meals

  Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books

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• Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.

  Mark Driscoll

  Dog, Jesus, Kings

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• The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.

  Sparky Anderson

  Stars, Real, Believe

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• Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

  Andrew Solomon

  Morning, Heart, Mind

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

  Lance Morrow

  Real, Doors, History

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• I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

  Steven Morrissey

  Gps, Valium, Tolerate

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• That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

  Richard Russo

  Distance, Intellectual, Purpose

  "Straight Man: A Novel". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.

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• What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Cheerful, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.251, Vintage

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• Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.

  Neal Boortz

  Home, Successful, Dark

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Summer, Children, Fun

  "English Social History".

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• 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.

  Nick Swisher

  Spring, Oakland, Balls

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• I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Kids, Tennis

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• Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don't read books. This I find unbearable.

  William Maxwell

  Dream, Lying, Book

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

  Patrick MacGill

  Soldier, Meals, Breakfast

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

  Rory Stewart

  Scotland, Leaving, Magic

  Rory Stewart (2009). “The Places In Between”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.

  Ajahn Chah

  Morning, Night, Practice

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• If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Morning, Rain

  "Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature?" by Will Hutton, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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• Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

  Ricky Gervais

  Believe, Animal, Years

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jan 18, 2015

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• This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

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• I remember I did quite a lot of interviews when the book and the CD came out, and I did a drivetime interview for Radio London or something. You wouldn't immediately associate the music on Ocean Of Sound with drivetime radio, but people found things that they liked, and the DJ was playing some records at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on a weekday.The man who was playing them said to me, "That Peter Brotzmann track, it's like having your head boiled in acid."

  David Toop

  Book, Ocean, Men

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

  Edie Brickell

  Believe, Thinking, Yesterday

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• Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.

  Robert Leckie

  Morning, Writing, Eye

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