Sunday Afternoons Quotes

• Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

  Chris Klein

  Book, Sunday, Feet

  "Chris Klein, 'American Reunion' Star, On Being Left Out Of 'American Wedding' And Life After His 'Mamma Mia' Audition". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

  Alan Bennett

  Sunday, People, Majority

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  Susan Ertz

  Inspirational, Death, Sunday

  Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

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• In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Sunday, Dark

  "Life, the Universe and Everything" by Douglas Adams, (Ch. 1), 1982.

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• I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

  Ida B. Wells

  Friday, Country, Children

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.

  Bronagh Gallagher

  Memories, Sunday, Epic

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• Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

  Nicholas Haslam

  Writing, Sunday, Afternoon

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• There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.

  Pete Rozelle

  Monday, Sunday, Night

  Jerry Izenberg, Pete Rozelle (2014). “Rozelle: A Biography”, p.256, U of Nebraska Press

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• It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

  Alan Kulwicki

  Sports, Sunday, Night

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• It's basically the same, just darker.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Nascar Racing, Afl, Rugby

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• It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sunday, Afternoon, Earth

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 2 'The Pleasures of Opium'

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• In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

  Dana Delany

  Children, Sunday, Thinking

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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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• Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Book, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Apr 08, 2013

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• Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.

  Carson McCullers

  Sunday, Afternoon

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Home

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• Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.

  Keith Ward

  Sunday, Thinking, People

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• I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.

  Wilkie Collins

  Christian, Morning, Prayer

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1379, e-artnow sro

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• The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Baseball, Stars, Sunday

  "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.

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• John Kerry fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. He went for a Sunday afternoon ride, fell off in front of the news media. Luckily, his hair broke the fall so it's not as serious. ... Thankfully, Senator Kerry was not seriously injured. In fact, when the police arrived, Kerry was well enough to give conflicting reports to the officers about what happened.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Sunday, Weekend

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• The problem of what to wear while lolling about the house on a Sunday afternoon is becoming more and more acute as the fashions in lolling garments change. The American home is in danger of taking on the appearance of an Oriental bordello.

  Robert Benchley

  Fashion, Home, Sunday

  Robert Benchley (1940). “My Ten Years in a Quandary”

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• This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sunday, Childhood, Feelings

  Margaret Atwood (1999). “The Edible Woman”, Emblem Editions

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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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• I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Beer, Sunday

  Carl Sandburg, (2013). “Chicago Poems”, p.27, Read Books Ltd

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• There is much romanticism about Formula One of the past. Today it has to be more of a family sport, not less. It is a fixture in the Sunday afternoon TV programmes, and probably flamboyance - those white silk suits and devil-may-care attitudes - would be outworn attributes today.

  Martin Sorrell

  Sports, Attitude, Sunday

  Source: www.formula1.com

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