Afternoon Quotes - Page 14

• I just know that he's Robbie Williams - he's massive, that's all I know! He nailed it. Working in the studio with him was cool. I got there at about six in the afternoon and then stayed until six in the morning. We only worked for like two hours, the rest of the time we were just chilling out the back. The way Robbie handles everything... he's a star, but there were never any pretensions, no ego. He put effort in.

  Dizzee Rascal

  Morning, Stars, Two

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Henny Youngman

  Long, Four, Lasts

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• My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn't know exactly what we were doing? 'What's the point of electing someone who doesn't believe in the American people?' they asked. 'If she wants to ignore us now when she's only a candidate, what will she do as the President?'

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Teenage, Children, Believe

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• I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit. I do at least 20 different exercises daily for my upper and lower body. Then I come here every morning to do calf raises and play tennis. If there is time in the afternoon, I play tennis again. At least three hours I spend on weightlifting and bodybuilding.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Morning, Exercise, Bodybuilding

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• It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday.

  Leopold Infeld

  Sunday, Life And Death, Transition

  Leopold Infeld (1980). “Quest: An Autobiography”, p.324, American Mathematical Soc.

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• A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

  Don DeLillo

  Fate, Dark, Bars

  Don DeLillo (2007). “Underworld: A Novel”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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• Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Mind, Matter

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.

  Joan Didion

  Needs, Done, Dinner

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71". Interview with Linda Kuehl, www.theparisreview.org. 1978.

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• Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.

  Michael Chabon

  Tuesday, Novelists, Reptiles

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• For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Home, Simple, White

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Winter, Iron, Armor

  Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

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• In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.

  Maia Wojciechowska

  Death, Cheating, Fighting

  Maia Wojciechowska (2012). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

  Teju Cole

  Morning, Mean, Emotional

  Teju Cole @tejucole, twitter.com. March 8, 2012.

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• I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

  Jack White

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

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• At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Moving, Men, Odds

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• I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.

  Mark Doty

  Morning, Memories, Moving

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• I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.

  Peter Mayle

  Morning, Six, Routine

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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 service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

  Stephen Fry

  Past

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The Hippopotamus”, Soho PressInc

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• Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.

  Raven-Symone

  Years, Two, Wake Up

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

  Nicholas Haslam

  Writing, Sunday, Paper

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• Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.

  Rose Henniker Heaton

  Morning, Stupid, Sleep

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• the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

  Hannah Arendt

  Morning, Freedom, Decision

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Cake

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• Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.

  Carson McCullers

  Sunday, Sunday Afternoons

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

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