Evening Quotes - Page 40

• Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Play, Two, Miracle

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Burning

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• It’s much harder for me... I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening. When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, 'We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,' and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Morning, Jobs

  "Gwyneth Paltrow's Post-Split Plans: Actress Reveals She's Taking a Break From Acting to Focus on Her Kids". Interview with Lily Harrison, www.eonline.com. March 26, 2014.

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• We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

  Robin Williams

  Gentleman, Honey, Way

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• Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

  Chevy Chase

  Home, People, Television

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• You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

  Tracey Gold

  Second Chance, Judgment, Drink

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• My best evenings are at home with my lady.

  Billy Zane

  Home

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

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• When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

  Helen McCrory

  Mother, Morning, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News for You, the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of lager does for Sunday mornings, although I wouldn't know, being more partial to cocaine personally. Allegedly.

  Angus Deayton

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

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• I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

  Dirk Benedict

  Scotch, Quality, Cuba

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• It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Sadness, Artist, Greatness

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• I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family.

  Selena

  Home, Lame, Quiet

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• The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  J. G. Ballard

  Drama, Gun, Reality

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• For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Forever, Advice

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.244, Vintage

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• For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Government, Skills

  Comment to General Henry Knox on the delay in assuming office, March 1789.

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• I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.

  Roger Federer

  Wine, Glasses, Guy

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• I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, 'Why didn't I go to bed at 11?' I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.

  Roger Federer

  Nice, Wine, Glasses

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• The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday’s blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.

  Isaac Babel

  Horse, Sunset, Yesterday

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• One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.

  Robert Bork

  New York, Naked, Television

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• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Home, Animal

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Morning, Joy, Dresses

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• Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Sunset, Eye, Glasses

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1922-23, Vol. 01 of 17”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  Kate Simon

  Summer, Twilight, Sky

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• I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

  Spike Milligan

  Depression, Depressing, Pain

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• If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

  Gail Kelly

  Soccer, Business, Women

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