Afternoon Quotes - Page 27

• If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.

  Arundhati Roy

  Religious, Years, Looks

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• Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don't read books. This I find unbearable.

  William Maxwell

  Dream, Lying, Book

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

  Ricardo Semler

  Monday, Sunday, Night

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• I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

  Dan Chaon

  Sleep, Night, Naps

  Believer Interview, www.believermag.com.

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• The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.

  Sparky Anderson

  Stars, Real, Believe

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

  Stephen King

  Morning, Naps, Letters

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

  Nick Hornby

  Soul, Balance, Wish

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.86, Penguin

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• I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Lips

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.308, Dell

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• As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.

  Betty Smith

  Girl, Book, House

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness.

  George Mackay Brown

  Beer, Thinking, Two

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• I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Girl, Wall, Skins

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people." She nodded. "And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?" "Oh..." I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. "Um.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Stupid, Kissing

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Government, Naps

  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1986.

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• I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats.

  Hugh Jackman

  Morning, Old School, Legs

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• I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Want, Likes

  "Tough-talker Henry Rollins Is Back, Keeping Things Israel". Interview with Anthony Layser, www.tvguide.com. April 13, 2007.

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• When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

  Henry Rollins

  Hands, Trying, Juice

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• Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.

  Mark Driscoll

  Dog, Jesus, Kings

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• Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can... Never stay too long in your bed. Never lose your heart, use your head... Never take a stranger's advice. Never let a friend fool you twice... Never be the first to believe. Never be the last to deceive... Never leave a moment too soon. Never waste a hot afternoon... Never stay a minute too long. Don't forget the best will go wrong... Better learn to go it alone. Recognise you're out on your own. Nobody's on nobody's side.

  Tim Rice

  Believe, Heart, Games

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• Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.

  Robert Leckie

  Morning, Writing, Eye

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• We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

  W. H. Auden

  Sunny Afternoon, Shy, Sunny Day

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• I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

  Mickey Gilley

  Morning, Years, Best Year

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• Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Book, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Apr 08, 2013

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• Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

  Tom Hanks

  Light, Self, Feelings

  Interview with Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2014.

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• I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Good Life, Night, Too Much

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• One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Fun, Dad

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