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Quotes About Afternoon

In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Ten slotte, in de namiddag, onder een bekoorlijke herfstlucht, zo'n lucht waaruit verlangens en herinneringen in grote getale neerdalen, ging ze ergens achteraf in een tuin zitten, om, ver van de menigte, naar een van die concerten te luisteren waar de muzikanten van de regimenten de Parijse bevolking op trakteren.
~ Baudelaire
I had almost forgotten about the bougainvillea, how bright they are, explosions of pink climbing the stucco walls, and how soft the light is in the afternoon, how it makes the colors seem magically deeper and it really does feel like anything is possible. For a long time, that light was enough to sustain me there. [in Los Angeles]
~ Ben Ehrenreich
One afternoon I decided, with a couple of friends, to eat out. We set out hunting for a good restaurant and couldn't find a single place because everything was shut. Finally we had to have idlis at a place and that too at 5 P. M. I didn't know Goa totally shuts down in the afternoon.
~ Gautam Rode
One afternoon, she went to Washington Square
~ Susan Wiggs
The rest of us would have liked some time off. They only gave us that Friday afternoon, which we took gladly, but we, too, suffered from stress and all sorts of disorders and would have liked more than an afternoon.
~ Joshua Ferris
She went about that afternoon looking under sheep like a pervert, happy with all the dark, purple-pink tissue at their hindquarters. New lambs in the spring.
~ Judith Ivory
Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
I cannot get that beautiful afternoon out of my head, above me where I lay the grass was silhouetted against the blue of the heavens, small clouds were rushing past as the wind drove them on an endless journey.
~ Julia Lee-Booker
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
~ Alex Kapranos
Walk to developmental old trombone- I - seeking to be found- inside time!- by one whose blues seek by speaking tunes to this specific city afternoon of bread, fumes, and orange nasturtiums- am, still, solo- even the base of me being, unknown.
~ Fanny Howe
Ay, qué terribles cinco de la tarde!. ¡Eran las cinco en todos los relojes Eran las cinco en sombra de la tarde!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone
~ Federico García-Lorca
At five in the afternoon.Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon!It was five by all the clocks!It was five in the shade of the afternoon!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Instead of taking a quiet nap as I should have been doing, I spent the afternoon in a teeming anthill of cutthroats, pickpockets, and shady characters who'd committed every crime in the book. Including one I couldn't forgive them for - no one asked me for my autograph.
~ Bob Hope
Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.
~ Harper Lee
The remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle gloom that descends when relatives appear
~ Harper Lee
It was an Indian summer afternoon in Indiana, a rare gift. We walked home slowly. I thought Mom might be wrong about me having all I needed, but just at that moment, I had no need to complain.
~ Haven Kimmel
The girls were playing in the labyrinth in Marie's garden one afternoon when they declared their love for each other. Every declaration of love is a magic incantation. It casts a spell on your future.
~ Heather O'Neill
There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.
~ Jerry Hall
I do 20 minutes of transcendental meditation every morning, and I try to do it in the afternoon, too.
~ Daisy Lowe
once upon an afternoon i became still-life i carried a balloon and a long black knife.)
~ Sonia Sanchez
Über den schon leuchtend grünen Wiesenhügeln stand die volle Nachmittagssonne. Die Bäume schlugen so kräftig aus, daß man geradezu ausweichen mußte.
~ Sten Nadolny