#afternoon

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#music #plains #understand #untranslatable #music

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#any #both #cast #clock #come

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

#back #before #drive #enemy #entered

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work. ↗

— Connie Chung

#afternoon #back #big #certainly #chunk

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first. ↗

— Howard Carter

#after #afternoon #almost #came #clearing

Afternoon classes - that evil invention! ↗

— John Gresham Machen

#classes #evil #invention

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#i #like #naps #nude #take

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#afternoon #american #american culture #bats #began

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit. ↗

— John Newcombe

#afternoon #back #because #drill #fit

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #film #grow #grow up #i