#afternoon

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#afternoon #immortality #know #long #millions

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

#aunt #concerts #down #friday #friday afternoon

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. ↗

— Saki

#eccentric #golden-afternoon #humor #saki #twentieth-century

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea ↗

— Henry James

#classics #edwardian #life

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

To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it. ↗

— Tom Araya

#afternoon #background #band #crowd #enjoy

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#airplane #fails #few #gets #happens

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#baseball #course #did #get #golf

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

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them. ↗

— William Dampier

#among #appearance #captain #carriage #chief