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General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives. -- Suetonius
I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer. -- William S. Burroughs
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death. -- Ned Rorem
Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun. -- Catherine McCormack
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. -- Shonda Rhimes
It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own. -- Olivia Wilde
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. -- Richard M. Nixon
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. -- Robert Hass
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand. -- Charles Morgan
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. -- John Woolman
My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner. -- Oona Chaplin
There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over. -- Deepika Padukone
I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day. -- Cara Delevingne
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. -- Aldous Huxley
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. -- Cathy Guisewite
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
Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings. -- Azim Premji
For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon. -- Martin Bashir
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung. -- John McCormack
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. -- Quentin Crisp
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings. -- Jane Birkin
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep. -- Geraldine Brooks
I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings. -- Vinnie Jones
I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way. -- Victoria Beckham
Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues -- Gram Parsons
My best evenings are at home with my lady. -- Billy Zane
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. -- Robert Hass
I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings... -- David Bowie
...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable... -- John J. Geddes
...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable... -- John J. Geddes
I spend most of my evenings grinding into the early morning to my favorite music. -- Alex Jones
I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family. -- Selena
In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister: -- David Brooks
The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings. -- Reese Schonfeld
Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life. -- Liv Ullmann
Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart. -- Angela Carter
My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings. -- Ozwald Boateng
Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress. -- Bruno Tonioli
In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge. -- Margaret Atwood
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend. -- Kate Bush
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. -- Jack Steinberger
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. -- Andrew Garfield
Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton. -- Tom Holt
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. -- Kin Hubbard
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life -- Boris Pasternak
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life. -- Boris Pasternak
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. -- Alexandra Adornetto
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. -- Raymond Chandler
She [Hillary Clinton] was always expected to win the Democratic nomination so I wouldn't be surprised if they picked those evenings . -- Donald Trump
Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! -- Humbert Wolfe
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. -- Mary Quant
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings. -- D.E. Stevenson
what a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings. -- Julia Quinn
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. -- Charles Bukowski
In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves. -- Malcolm Gets
I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company. -- Jane Goodall
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
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. -- Albert Camus
When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day. -- Isabel Gillies
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary's [Clinton] people had something to do with putting them on these evenings because that's what she did to Bernie Sanders. -- Donald Trump
Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend. -- Maureen Dowd
Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist. -- Paul Gambaccini
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. -- Michelle Dockery
When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship. -- Kristin Kimball
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled. -- Alice Meynell
There are plenty of dates that are dead nights that you could do. There are plenty evenings that are dead nights that you could have the debates in. -- Donald Trump
I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy. -- Magnus Carlsen
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. -- David Mamet
I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair. -- Sonny Rollins
In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. -- Charles M. Schwab
I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times. -- Dirk Benedict
Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day. -- Nicholas Sparks
I thought very seriously having something more like a normal life where I might have my weekends and evenings off, and be able to read and have a more robust personal life. -- Jason Kenney
I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult. -- Daniela Hantuchova
I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices. -- Hedy Lamarr
I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else. -- John Darnielle
I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent. -- Carolina Herrera
I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there. -- Robinson Jeffers
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work. -- Karl Kraus
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

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