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I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. -- Ronald Reagan
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -- Henry James
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. -- Hank Aaron
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. -- Barbara Jordan
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? -- Dr. Seuss
Afternoon classes - that evil invention! -- John Gresham Machen
I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon. -- Guillaume Canet
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid! -- Bill Watterson
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon. -- Adrian Rogers
What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son. -- Ben Stein
America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex. -- Arianna Huffington
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. -- Isabella Beeton
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. -- Henry James
Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept. -- Jackie French
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
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? -- Jack Handey
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. -- Thomas Jefferson
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. -- Milan Kundera
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. -- Ann Patchett
I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon! -- Edie Brickell
We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night. -- Ric Flair
"Nature" is what we see - The Hill - the Afternoon - Squirrel - Eclipse - the Bumble bee - Nay - Nature is Heaven - Nature is what we hear... -- Emily Dickinson
When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series. -- Jill Soloway
My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman. -- Chris Hegedus
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. -- George Gissing
There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday. -- Jim Henson
America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after 'Tuesday Afternoon,' so I think we have a special fondness for it. -- Justin Hayward
All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone. -- Neil Gaiman
May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin. -- H. Peter Loewer
I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite. -- Maria Sharapova
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that. -- Richard LaGravenese
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop. -- Jack Kerouac
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon. -- Jilly Cooper
I want to be a footballer - and that means playing on a Saturday afternoon. -- Charlie Adam
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons. -- Robert MacNeil
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. -- Henry James
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. -- Lin Yutang
My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning. -- Robert Ripley
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon. -- Allan Sherman
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. -- Ida B. Wells
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. -- Barry Hannah
It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back. -- Mike Birbiglia
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read. -- Beverly Cleary
It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day. -- Jay-Z
The one thing I don't consume during 'Today' - which surprises many people - is coffee. I find that a lot of water helps wake me up, without the buzz. I love coffee, but usually reserve a double espresso as an afternoon pick-me-up before settling in to do the weekend 'Nightly News.' -- Lester Holt
There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?' -- Chuck Schumer
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them. -- Laura Lang
Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. -- Jack Kornfield
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue. -- Haruki Murakami
I'm an afternoon person. -- Rita Hayworth
A holocaust of an afternoon. -- Carlton Palmer
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea! -- Agatha Christie
I spent a week there one afternoon. -- Harry Chapin
Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing. -- Nicholas Haslam
Good afternoon, everybody-ugh, Jesus, gimme a sec. -- Barack Obama
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. -- Robert Frost
I like to take afternoon naps in the nude. -- Cleo Moore
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. -- Annie Dillard
Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon. -- Ray Davies
The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone -- Tom Robbins
the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ... -- Stephen King
I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon. -- Patty Loveless
It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is? -- Amy Neftzger
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. -- Charlotte Bronte
I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon. -- Edie Falco
Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound. -- Hilma Wolitzer
From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night. -- Lionel Messi
Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon. -- Rose Henniker Heaton
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. -- Anthony Burgess
Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea. -- Jethro Tull
Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon. -- Jerry Coleman
If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire. -- Carlos Drummond de Andrade
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. -- Jimmy Carter
Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon. -- Spike Dykes
Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon. -- Tracy Kidder
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. -- Charles M. Schulz
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. -- Steve Jobs
Never draw more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon -- alan
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it. -- Gustave Flaubert
I'm a gym rat; I love my hour-long afternoon sessions with my trainer. -- Tim Howard
I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography. -- June Foray
If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea. -- Sophie McShera
A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates. -- Don DeLillo
This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power. -- Jimmy Carter
What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon? -- Gordon McLendon
In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon! -- John F. Kennedy
Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon. -- Troye Sivan
A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Until you've been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon - you've never been kissed. -- Woody Allen
Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream. -- Stephen King
in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears. -- Markus Zusak
Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime. -- Kamahl
Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea. -- Anwar al-Awlaki
I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser. -- Rod Stewart
Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. -- Kate Bernheimer
It's hard thinking about Iraq at night when I'm dancing with transvestites in the afternoon. -- Jerry Springer
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. -- W.S. Gilbert
And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs. -- C.N. Faust
I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life. -- Humphrey Bogart
Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor. -- Ogden Nash
Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. -- Jeff Lindsay
Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. -- Walker Percy
Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff. -- Joan Didion
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. -- Hector Hugh Munro
For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese. -- Jim Crace
Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food. -- Nikki Giovanni
There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon. -- Pete Rozelle
It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think? -- Jean Rhys
There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen -- Stephenie Meyer
I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon. -- Steve Lukather
Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good. -- Jeremy Irons
That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said. -- Sylvia Plath
His smile was like a Dylan album and a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon -- Jen Archer Wood
If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college. -- Benjamin Jowett
Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon. -- Jack Johnson

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