Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.
I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you. ' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.
There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall. . . . Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. . . . as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.
Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.
I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.
On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric planes that extent out into infinity.
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Kids want to be professional footballers and I think they need to know what it takes to get there - you know, the dedication. People see footballers playing on a Saturday afternoon in front of the TV cameras, but from a Monday to Friday people don't really see what goes on.
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.
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.
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.