Light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second…So why are the afternoons so long? – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Sally Brown in school report.
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. – J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield in Chapter 1.
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
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James
What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? – F. Scott Fitzgerald
I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up. – Martina Hingis
When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don’t think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing. – Dinah Shore
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days. – Laura Hillenbrand
We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion. – Ronnie Barker
Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening. – Simon Callow
