Evening Quotes - Page 7

• Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Issues, Income, Matter

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• I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.

  Marcia Wallace

  Phones, Numbers, People

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• The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Lying, Feet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

  Tony Randall

  Morning, Fun, Fog

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• Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Food, Cooking

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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• I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Taken, Years, Six

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• I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Letter, January 21, 1799.

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• Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Being Alone, Water, Depth

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.420, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

  Rod McKuen

  Morning, Long, Solitude

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• Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

  Jim Henson

  Stars, Wish, Would Be

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• The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

  Bill Vaughan

  Loss, Sky, Tears

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• A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Wind, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

  Beverly Sills

  Ruins, Whole

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• In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Weather, Sullen, Thunder

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.48, Anchor

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• Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.

  Wallace Stevens

  Dwelling, Light, Air

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.452, Vintage

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• Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

  Dean Koontz

  Cows, Odd Thomas

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2013

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• I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

  Neil Gaiman

  Felt

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• I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

  Ben Okri

  Squares, Order, Your Smile

  Ben Okri (1992). “An African elegy”, Vintage

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• This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening

  Sarah MacLean

  World, New World

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

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• But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

  Anthony Burgess

  Feelings, Energy, Clockwork

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”

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• And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Dust

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

  e. e. cummings

  Moon, Orange, Silver

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

  Arthur Golden

  Party, Struggle, Destiny

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.294, Random House

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• There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wings, Purple, Midnight

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

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• It's a very simple process. He [Danny Boyl] comes in the tube (subway) and then he sits with me for 3 hours every evening and then I work on something. Then later, if he likes something, I put it even more perfectly. I tweak stuff. So this happened for 3 or 4 weeks and the music was done.

  A. R. Rahman

  Simple, Done, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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