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Quotes About Afternoon

Late afternoon arrives, and I'm still unshowered and in my robe. The feel and smell and taste of Esben are all over me, and I love it.
~ Jessica Park
No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
~ George Washington Cable
the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...
~ Stephen King, Carrie
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
The seamen had whitewashed the smoky ceilings of the ward, and that dear homely smell carried the vividness of thatch and lumpy walls and stew given from the goodness of a stranger's heart. But that was all there was of comfort, and the salt air had turned from cold to warm in the passing of a life, an afternoon.
~ Peter Carey
Gooooood afternoon, this is meteorologist Sandy 'the Breeze' Bancroft, with Disaster Watch! We're reporting live from the ultimate death-doom-and-destruction destination - that's right... Pompeii!
~ Peter Lerangis
If you wanted to reassemble Elijah's afternoon, you could probably do it by stringing together all the photographs and all of the frames of videotape that he walks into. Always a passerby, he is immortalized and unknown.
~ David Levithan
Lisa and I groaned, cursing our stupidity. Once again we'd been duped. There was nothing worse than spending an afternoon on a golf course. We knew what was in store for us and understood that the next few hours would pass like days or maybe even weeks. Our watches would yawn, the minute and hour hands joining each other in a series of periodic naps.
~ David Sedaris
The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.
~ Davis Bunn
Un après-midi de janvier où la température était descendue à moins trente avec un vent à faire pleurer un ours polaire...
~ Unknown
Faced with the same reality, we in the West tend to opt for a stiff drink instead. But people will insist upon shooting us sideways glances and saying things like, "It's two o'clock in the afternoon!" and so we put down our glasses and sigh.
~ Zadie Smith
in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.
~ zusak markus
It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.
~ Luis Fonsi
In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I wake up sometimes and roll over and sleep until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
~ Noah Centineo
I used to watch a lot of afternoon TV. I started imitating the movies then.
~ Harry Enfield
in the afternoon to read the papers, — those of the department, and a journal from Paris which he received three days after publication, well greased by the thirty hands through which it came, browned by the snuffy noses that had pored over it, and soiled by the various tables on which it had lain.
~ Honore de Balzac
It was a rainy Monday afternoon, and nothing about the day so far boded anything but ill for the rest of the working week.
~ Ian Rankin
Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.
~ Connie Chung
At the diner, customers used to come in all the time and say, 'I'm not a morning person.' Usually right before or right after they ordered coffee. But what? The world is divided into morning people and afternoon people and night people?
~ Cristina Henriquez
Now he altered his routine and began to take his walk in the afternoon. If the children were not to be allowed to come to him for religious instruction he must go to them. He knew they played in the gardens and was sure he would find them … but he was disappointed. The children saw him, of course, but they avoided him — as they avoided all grown-ups —
~ D.E. Stevenson
I'm in my studio at 6 A.M. every day because I work better in the morning. Then in the afternoon, I like to go for a walk. I enjoy going for a perambulation or a constitutional. It's all very Victorian.
~ Vic Reeves
I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.
~ Shawn Mendes