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Quotes About Afternoon

The tax man's taken all my doughAnd left me in my stately home,Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
~ Ray Davies
[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there.
~ Ray Miller
I really love the camaraderie you can share amongst some buddies, and the ability to laugh, enjoy the afternoon, enjoy the day. Golf brings all of that together and that's something I really enjoy.
~ Michael Waltrip
The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
~ James Mooney
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.
~ Raymond Carver
According to Evelyn (and she should know), the big market in radio in the next few years is going to be in afternoon serial dramas for housewives. It makes sense when you think about it. Women are home all day washing and ironing and cleaning, and while they're doing all that, they can listen to programs about people who lead more interesting lives.
~ Richard B. Wright
In the heavy air of a morning that foretells a blazing afternoon, these absurdist dreams hover, like the musk of an animal that passed the house before dawn. Lethargy, she thinks.
~ Julia Glass
So (and this would have happened earlier, but I am only remembering it now): I am visiting her one afternoon.
~ Julian Barnes
Amanda filling the doorway, silent, us facing each other like friends or family or like lovers; and eternity of silence and afternoon light. And she doesn't even know about the cat yet. I will never escape this town. Justin Taylor (Everything here is the best thing ever)
~ Justin Taylor
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.
~ Willa Cather
Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.
~ Duncan Jones
The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar
~ David Eddings
I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.
~ Donald E. Westlake
All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!
~ George Eliot
I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.
~ Mario Cantone
A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...
~ Emily Dickinson
Thursday afternoon, the dark clouds closed in, and by Friday morning a heavy rain was falling. The mountain peaks were hazy sentinels, disappearing into misty fog that clung to the valley.
~ Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon.
~ Tracy Kidder
They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.
~ Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest
When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.
~ Harold Monro
If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.
~ Carlos Drummond de Andrade
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
~ Aneurin Bevan
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