Afternoon Quotes - Page 3

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

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.

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.

I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn’t this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.