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Quotes About Afternoon

My favorite so far (and it was still only late afternoon on Monday) was a pleated school-girl skirt by Anna Sui
~ Lauren Weisberger
I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
~ Margaret Mitchell
But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme.
~ Aimee Bender
The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.
~ Alain de Botton
Devia ser uma tarde de felicidade, mesmo para os homens de uma sorte mediana.
~ Dino Buzzati
But why was the room suddenly becoming so dark? It was the middle of the afternoon. With a supreme effort Giuseppe Corte, who felt himself paralyzed with a strange lethargy, looked at the clock on the nightstand beside the bed. It was 3:30. He turned his head in the other direction and saw that the shutters, in obedience to some mysterious command, were closing slowly, blocking the passage of light.
~ Dino Buzzati
Una tarde de domingo es inconfundible.
~ Dominique Barbéris
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
Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon.
~ Jerry Coleman
When I awoke on Wednesday afternoon, I understood how an amputee must feel.
~ Jerry Lewis
Nació una tarde lluviosa de octubre, a comienzos del nuevo siglo en la fría Bogotá.
~ Jesús Rodríguez
He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.
~ Jess Walter
In the afternoon, about three, he is dead. I
~ Erich Maria Remarque
THAT AFTERNOON
~ Erik Larson
Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Then that the afternoon should come; that it should come flying.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was late afternoon. This time tomorrow he would be somewhere on a good graveled road, driving his car past things that happened to people, quicker than their happening. (Death of a Traveling Salesman)
~ Eudora Welty
Stengel admitted. "I'm not going to make any decision until I have to give the umpire my batting order. Then you'll know as well as I." The next afternoon, Casey resisted
~ Andrew O'Toole
It was siesta time, which in Jealousy usually lasted from late morning until early evening.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
the canary, with my parents "This afternoon. I just saw on the
~ Andy Cohen
And my mother's afternoon escapes from the house that she could not quite consider her own were an indication that loneliness can be felt even in the most ideal of circumstances.
~ Anita Brookner
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
~ Thomas de Quincey
In 'A Room With a View' there's a lovely scene with Julian Sands and Helena Bonham-Carter in a wheat field. It was simply the right time of day: late afternoon, that golden light, wheat and poppies... So romantic. But I had no idea it would turn out that well, since we so rarely shoot in a studio.
~ James Ivory