Receiving the president of the United States in your restaurant is a big thing. Obama came three times. There's a sense of pride when you're one of few who has had a chance to spend an evening with the president of the United States. Despite if he's Republican or Democrat, we accept them all. Also, I remember days when I had Julia Child coming, with close friends. I had a great relationship with Julia. So those moments are more of affection and admiration than of fancy pride.
I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family.
If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a. m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas.
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.
He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.
General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.
My best evenings are at home with my lady.
Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart
It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.
How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evening? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. but I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.
You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.
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.
The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.