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Quotes About Evenings

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
~ James Agee
The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
~ George Eliot
Most producers who want you to dance are not looking at the long term. They see their evenings, the box office, whom they have to repay, whatever.
~ Sylvie Guillem
She remembered the summer evenings all full of sunshine. The colts neighed when any one passed by, and galloped, galloped. Under her window there was a beehive, and sometimes the bees wheeling round in the light struck against her window like rebounding balls of gold.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I adore my houses - they're my refuge - but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it's impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Quite often I can get real music on the transistor radio in the evenings. It makes what used to be long hours after Anna has gone home a time of marvels. I marvel that such beauty flows in through my ears, unheard by anyone else. What a miracle!
~ May Sarton
In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
~ Imran Amed
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
~ Carl Jung
I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs.
~ Amy Hoggart
In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.
~ T.S. Eliot
Spiritual age is determined by the acts which make the mornings and evenings of the soul, and not by the motions of the physical globe. The soul should have its own cycles and revolutions, presenting in turn every portion of its existence to the vivifying influence of the great source of light.
~ Henry James
Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies the Scots, managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings.
~ Terry Pratchett
You are a poet, sycamore, A minor poet. You are not much good in a practical world; You shed your ragged leaves early, and clutter up the landscape. But you are lovely on winter evenings Against the afterglow-- Bare and pale and a little disdainful, But yourself.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
~ John Lydon
As a baker, Seladis knew it was essential to establish an almost spiritual relationship with your stove, because they could be conspicuous. He intended to honour that code and keep his beast sweet, since he expected to work at home in the evenings.
~ Storm Constantine
I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings.
~ Aisling Bea
Here are the long-awaited evenings Here you are. Here am I. Your face the orizon I want to see
~ Mohja Kahf
Evenings like these bore the joyful promise of a new sunny day of loosely ordered leisure and ornamented with countless and closely packed prospects of pleasant encounters.
~ Thomas Mann
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
~ Victoria Wood
Pavese spiegava che veniva là non per coraggio, perché lui di coraggio non ne aveva; e nemmeno per spirito di sacrificio. Veniva perché se no non avrebbe saputo come passar le serate; e non tollerava di passar le serate in solitudine.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
I open the door to my cottage these evenings on a silence so thick it falls upon me like a blanket. Of all the lonely moments of my day, this is the loneliest. I confess I have sometimes been reduced to muttering my thoughts aloud like a madwoman when the need for a human voice becomes too strong.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.
~ Bruno Tonioli
evenings before he moved away.' Wells's eyes kept flickering away from the QC to the prisoner. He was clearly uncomfortable
~ Val McDermid
I was also feeding off a more general depression that sometimes settled over Kampala evenings. You had a sense of people not having gotten what they wanted during the day. The street vendors, for instance
~ Giles Foden