Evening Quotes - Page 23

• The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Morning, Quality, Surf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Fun, Party

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.

  Andrew Weil

  Sleep, Exercise, Practice

  "Sleep Tips For A Younger, More Vibrant You" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.

  Carnie Wilson

  Force, Hard

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• There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time.

  Tom Wolfe

  Technology, Issues, People

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

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• I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

  Alber Elbaz

  Morning, Weekend, Definitions

  "How I get dressed" by Alber Elbaz, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.

  Vinnie Jones

  Children, Home, Holiday

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• Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Believe, Thinking, Would Be

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• Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a television set and wishing they had the courage to roll over the parapet of a high bridge? I bet there are millions of us.

  Alasdair Gray

  Home, Bridges, People

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• Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

  Etty Hillesum

  People, Tree, Feelings

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.

  Helen Fielding

  Party, Garden, Tree

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Fall, Autumn

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1956). “The American Essays”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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• It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dust, Color, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.23, Anchor

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• I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Light, Long Ago

  Great Expectations ch. 59 (1862 ed.)

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• Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Song, Children, Fire

  "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

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• I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Taken, Winter

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.10, University of Missouri Press

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• Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Father, People, Grandparent

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003.

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• I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Thinking, Light

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• But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves.

  Patricia Highsmith

  New York, Dark, Broken

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• I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever.

  Graham Greene

  Prayer, Hate, Tired

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Coffee, Spoons

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.383, Faber & Faber

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• On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Squares, August, Two

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 13, 2012

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• And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Sleep, May

  Albert Camus (1982). “The stranger”

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• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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