Afte'noon Quotes

#1. Shouldn't you have today off? Isn't it Sunday?"
"I've a half day off ever' three days. I'll be out temorra afte'noon."
I snort. "A half day?"
God, that's ridiculous. She doesn't even get a single full day off? What is Alex, some kind of slave driver? Jeez.

Mandy Hubbard

#2. I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.

Jackie Robinson

#3. A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4. Being a rollerblader for Jesus isn't a dream. It's a goal.
Rae Nell, "Rollerblader for Jesus

Ellen Morris Prewitt

#5. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

Dan Quayle

#6. All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.

Joel Edgerton

#7. [The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.

Lance Armstrong

#8. The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. He who travels in the middle of the road is hit by traffic from both directions.

Anonymous

#10. I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

Marianne Faithfull

#11. Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what you
want to do - if you can.

Richard Ford