Afternoon Quotes - page 3

Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon. (Winston Churchill)
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. View quote
Milan Kundera
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. View quote
Ann Patchett
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. View quote
Mark Haddon
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us. View quote
Neal Shusterman
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit. View quote
Peter Straub
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room. View quote
Andrew Weil
The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar. View quote
David Eddings
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. View quote
David Walliams
He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon. (Jess Walter)
Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening. View quote
Jean Rhys
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003. View quote
Michael Gruber
I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon. View quote
Guillaume Canet
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. View quote
Dana Delany
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time. View quote
Paul Reiser
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window. (Raymond Carver)
I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon. View quote
Ronda Rousey
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. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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. View quote
Martina Hingis
There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?' View quote
Chuck Schumer