Evenings Quotes - page 3

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. (Aldous Huxley)
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. View quote
Richard Nixon
Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world When firelight shone on green linoleum, I heard the church bells hollowing out the sky, Deep beyond deep, like never-ending stars. View quote
John Betjeman
Now we go off to the office and come home in the evenings to cheap chicken and frozen peas. Very nice, but too much of it, too easy and regular, served up without effort or wanting. We eat, we are lucky, our faces are shining with fat, but we don't know the pleasure of being hungry any more. View quote
Laurie Lee
I don't suffer much from solitude in the evenings. I spring upon my books. I always spoke a good word for solitude, and it is grateful to me. Books ward off the ghastly thoughts. View quote
Samuel Palmer
It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own. View quote
Olivia Wilde
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books. View quote
Scott Anderson
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over. View quote
Deepika Padukone
Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life. (Liv Ullmann)
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er. View quote
Amy Hoggart
My best evenings are at home with my lady. View quote
Billy Zane
Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress. View quote
Bruno Tonioli
With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works. View quote
Colin Greenwood
I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times. View quote
Dirk Benedict
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings. View quote
Jane Birkin
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung. View quote
John McCormack
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. View quote
Michelle Dockery
My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner. (Oona Chaplin)
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. View quote
Robert Hass
The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings. View quote
Reese Schonfeld
I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress. . . . So that, even the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair. View quote
Sonny Rollins
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. View quote
Victoria Wood