Afternoon Quotes - Page 4

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.

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

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.

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

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.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

Honestly, Im living my fantasy. Its being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.

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.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.