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Quotes About Afternoon

Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening—here Orcutt chuckled—it's a matter of light, I understand, but which makes which I can't remember.
~ William H. Gass
The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.
~ David Benioff
If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1.5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.
~ David Brooks
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
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
~ John Buford
I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.
~ Stephen Hawking
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
~ George Foreman
One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.
~ Dave Barry
Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
~ Walker Percy
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
If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
~ Laura Bush
Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
~ Amy Neftzger
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
~ Saki, Reginald
What time is it?""One o'clock."I nearly spit out some soda. "In theafternoon?""No. In the morning. Don't let that damnsunlight fool you. It lies.
~ Glenn Bullion, Demonspawn
It was 2:00 p.m., too early for wine but not for chocolate.
~ Andrea Hurst, Always with You
The security officer smiled and said, 'Good afternoon, ma'am, ' to me before Igave him ID.""It's a sick world, Eve." He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. "A sick, sad world.
~ J.D. Robb, New York to Dallas
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, The Lazarus Trap
Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~ Susan Ertz
It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.
~ Simon Van Booy
the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things...
~ E.E. Cummings
Often already, during the fortnight that he had passed under her roof, when she enquired how he meant to spend his afternoon, he had answered paradoxically: Oh, I think for a change I'll just save it instead of spending it--
~ Edith Wharton
The light of the October afternoon lay on an old high-roofed house which enclosed in its long expanse of brick and yellowish stone the breadth of a grassy court filled with the shadow and sound of limes.
~ Edith Wharton
Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed
~ Edith Wharton