Afternoon Quotes

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Past
  • Afternoon

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• 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 Black Flag
  • Jobs
  • Boring
  • Interviews

• I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Reading
  • Loser
  • Playboy

• It was a tough run and we tried really hard. The track changed a little bit from the morning to the afternoon which was a little bit to our favour. We tried something in the beginning of the top-six qualifying and it didn't work, and we had to stop right away. We used the tyres up and the track was better. At the end of the day, I don't think we would have been able to catch Ryan. He did a good job. Now we look forward to the race tomorrow and hopefully will do well.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Beginning

• Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Work
  • Men
  • Nature

• 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
  • Sunday
  • Afternoon
  • Unbalanced

• When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • War

• A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Sincerely

• I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Die
  • Voice
  • Terrible

• A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • Home
  • Cinema
  • Evening

• I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Drinking
  • Worst
  • Afternoon

• The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Fall
  • Afternoon
  • Tin

• Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

  

  William Dampier
  • Kind
  • Morning
  • Appearance

• 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 Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Week
  • Seven

• It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Road

• Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • School
  • Drink
  • Breakfast

• Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • Pain
  • Forget
  • Pleasure

• I'm an afternoon person.

  

  Rita Hayworth
  • Person
  • Afternoon

• We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Morning
  • Jesus
  • Rose

• Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Game
  • Winning
  • Games

• One late afternoon, Dante came over to my house and introduced himself to my parents. Who did stuff like that?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Parents
  • Stuff
  • Introduced

• If I hadn’t gone into the movies, I might never had discovered that a day is made up of morning, afternoon, and evening, instead of afternoon, evening, and night. I never before realized that there was such an hour as nine A.M. I realize it bitterly now that I have to get to the Famous Player’s studio at that hour, but really the acting itself is a lark.

  

  Pauline Frederick
  • Morning
  • Movies
  • Discovered

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