Afternoon Quotes - Page 2

• There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Hours, Verge

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.162, Grove Press

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• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Time, Learning

  "Death in the Afternoon". Book by Ernest Hemingway, chapter 16, 1932.

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• The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Lying, Writing

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• How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Birthday, Summer

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• I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Nice, Home

  "Self Talks to Tennis Star Maria Sharapova (She's got a sweet tooth!)". Interview with Bari Lieberman, www.self.com. August 30, 2011.

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• In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.

  Veronica Rossi

  Adventure, Kissing, Sky

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• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Suicide, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• How did it get so late so soon?

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Time, Night

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• 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.

  Ann Patchett

  Jobs, Writing, Tea

  Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

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• In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

  George Gissing

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

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• Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

  Tennessee Williams

  New Orleans, Hands, Long

  "A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts".

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• I don't spend much time in it. I go in there for my lunch and for coffee in the afternoon. I'd rarely be in there at night. I don't think it's neccessarily a bad thing but if it's abused obviously it's a bad thing.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Coffee, Gay, Night

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• Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Humorous, Water

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• There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Abuse, Littles, Moral

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

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• The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Men, Use

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2248, Simon and Schuster

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• Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Writing, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2261, Simon and Schuster

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• Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

  David Nicholls

  Nice, Loneliness, Character

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

  Harvey Mackay

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.

  Dana Spiotta

  Long, Lazy, World

  Dana Spiotta (2006). “Eat the Document: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Work, Naps

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• But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Heartbreaking

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• That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.

  Steven Millhauser

  Dream, Art, Book

  FaceBook post by Steven Millhauser from Aug 19, 2015

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• Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

  Walker Percy

  Home, Heart, May

  WALKER PERCY (1983). “LOST IN THE COSMOS”

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