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Quotes About Afternoon

Myslel jsem sami, abychom si mohli pohovoÃ…â"¢it," zamumlal. "PohovoÃ…â"¢it - a o ?em?" Procházet a hovoÃ…â"¢it - opravdu, velmi podivný zp?sob, jak strávit odpoledne.
~ Aldous Huxley
Walking and talking—that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.
~ Aldous Huxley
Good cooking is a form of benevolence. Molly gladly sacrificed a fine afternoon to give pleasure by a cake at tea-time. She would lay her afternoon and fresh air on the table with the cake and be rewarded by the glow of pleasure she felt when they enjoyed it.
~ Dorothy Whipple
How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
~ Dr. Seuss
Never drink black coffee at lunch: it will keep you awake in the afternoon.
~ Jilly Cooper
Kent's knock came at 4:30 on a Thursday while Derek was having a cup of coffee, smoking a joint, and eating a piece of sponge cake.
~ Jim Yoakum
Maybe that afternoon was the closest I ever felt to Bob: his eyes were as old as God, and he was fragile as a winter leaf.
~ Joan Baez
She once told him about the mysterious trampled-down places found in fields, which the peasants superstitiously called werewolves' nests. Coming across one of these sites, she fell to her knees and buried her face in the flattened yellow grasses, hoping to inhale the odor of a werewolf, a csordásfarkas. As if his scent was a charm. She smelled nothing but hay burned by the afternoon sun.
~ Jody Shields
At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.
~ Anna Gavalda
As a child I started working. Again I had luck with my father's help financially, but I also had to work. I had a programme after training in the afternoon in which I would go in front of my house to do various things and the phone boxes was something I did to earn some money.
~ Eric Bailly
'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
~ Michael Gruber
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, green as green milk, blue as laundry water, wine dark.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was a dark afternoon, threatening rain and the end of the world, and done in that particularly gloomy gray in which only New York afternoons indulge. A breeze was crying down the streets, whisking along battered newspapers and pieces of things, and little lights were pricking out all the windows- it was so desolate that one was sorry for the tops of sky-scrapers lost up there in the dark green and gray heaven.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, towards that lost voice across the room.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
the sensuous heat of early afternoon made blinding freckles on the checkered luncheon cloth.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's not a bad time, it's not one of the worst times of the day.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The afternoon waned from the purging good of three o'clock to the golden beauty of four. Afterward he walked through the dull ache of a setting sun when even the clouds seemed bleeding...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean - then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
to the farm at two o'clock this afternoon
~ Fern Michaels
I went to school in the afternoon and worked in the morning. Sometimes I went out into the fields with my granddad.
~ Richarlison