Evening Quotes - Page 6

• On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Cousin, Party, Clouds

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Father, People

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• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Movie, Progress, Film

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• There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

  Gustav Klimt

  Morning, Special, Portraits

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• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

  Gavin Newsom

  Home, Cities, San Francisco

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• It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

  James D'arcy

  Jobs, Home, Good Day

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• On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Army, Men, December

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• My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Father, Book

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• The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

  Bear Bryant

  Summer, Twilight, Office

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• Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

  William Blake

  Angel, Light, Hair

  William Blake (1783). “Poetical Sketches”, p.5

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• Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Party, Character

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Prayer, Father, Blessing

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• And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

  Robert Bridges

  Home, Moon, Shadow

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

  Lorna Luft

  Magic, Hollywood, Sides

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm thinking of taking a window cleaner's job to fill the spare hour in the evening.

  Stuart Pearce

  Jobs, Thinking, Window

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• When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

  Dick Gregory

  Morning, Nbc, News

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• Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

  Satyajit Ray

  Morning, Two, Giving

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Children, Missing, Feelings

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• South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

  Kim Il-sung

  Teacher, Children, Home

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

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• Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Beach, Morning

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Taken, Nurse

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

  Satish Kumar

  Morning, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Football, Truth, Lying

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.5.

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• My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

  William Tyndale

  Dark, Lamps, Sitting

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