Evening Quotes

• I was out walking the other evening. This fellow accosted me, and asked if that was the moon up there in the sky. I replied that I had no idea, as I was a stranger there myself.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Funny
  • Ideas
  • Walking

• I enjoyed every bit of the evening. I may not drink scotch or smoke a cheroot again, but I shall always cherish the fact that I did those things. The adventure is well worth the disappointing experience.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Adventure
  • Drink
  • Cherish

• Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Proud
  • Evening
  • Dawn

• The 'Evening News' is going to have a long run, both as a broadcast and as a presence online and on cellphones. It is a franchise with a very rich tradition.

  

  Steve Capus
  • News
  • Tradition
  • Evening

• This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

  

  Jane Austen
  • Evening
  • Wonders

• Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Comedy
  • Sense
  • Evening

• The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Morning
  • Prayer
  • See

• I don't drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.

  

  Michael Rosbash
  • Read
  • Alcohol
  • Late

• When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Party
  • Fiction
  • Bucks

• The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

  

  Samuel Richardson
  • Life
  • Different
  • Companion

• Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.

  

  Nash Buckingham
  • Friend
  • Dog
  • Evening

• This particular evening, a giant yellow moon crested over a clear warm sky, so every fixture, the owls included, was floodlit like a carnival on its last night in town, and moon-drunk roars came from every corner. A perfect night to go out and make some dirty magic.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Perfect
  • Magic
  • Moon

• Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Choices
  • Actors
  • Sick

• I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Nothing
  • Because
  • Evening

• We could make our own pots on the weekends and in the evenings, and we used to do that, and these would be fired in the big kiln, along with all the standard ware that we were producing, but this wasn't quite what we had expected when we read The Potters Book.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Book
  • Bigs
  • Weekend

• This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • World
  • Evening

• Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening

  

  Karen Hawkins
  • Mind
  • Woman
  • Cold

• You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

  

  Sophocles
  • Day
  • Evening
  • Don't Know

• I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.

  

  Eddie Mair
  • Sorry
  • News
  • Evening

• Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Beautiful
  • Evening
  • Soup

• I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Joy
  • Subjects

• The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

  

  Stefan Edberg
  • Crowds
  • Evening
  • Loud

• A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Age
  • Night
  • Ends

• Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Beautiful
  • Evening
  • Soup

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