Quotes About Saturday Afternoons

#1. Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

Luke Harding

#2. We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children's service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother - a working woman, dependent on her help - feared the maid.

Edith Hahn Beer

#3. Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.

B.B. King

#4. In our house, reading was the primary group activity. On Saturday afternoons we curled up with our books in the den. It was the best of both worlds: you had the animal warmth of your family right next to you, but you also got to roam around the adventure-land inside your own head.

Susan Cain

#5. I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

Liam Neeson

#6. At around four o'clock most Saturday afternoons, just when I make us all a cup of tea, I have a little glow on, maybe because this is after all my work, and it's going OK, maybe because I'm proud of us, of the way that, though our talents are small and peculiar, we use them to their best advantage.

Nick Hornby

#7. Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead ... Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms.

Stewart O'Nan

#8. On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Maya Angelou

#9. I hate that there's never anyting good on TV on Saturday afternoons. It's like even the networks are trying to get you off your ass and have a life.

Julie Murphy

#10. It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer and more sharply edged than any other.

Grace Metalious

#11. Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail ... The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.

Christina Baldwin

#12. 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.

Barbara Cook

#13. College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#14. On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location.

J. Michael Straczynski

#15. I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

C.S. Lewis

#16. Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Paula Danziger

#17. I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

John Otway

#18. ... it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected. She laughed because she was disappointed ...

Jane Austen

#19. Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Michael J. Gelb

#20. Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

Martin Lawrence

#21. It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

Travis Barker

#22. It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Alan Kulwicki

#23. When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.

Don Kardong

#24. We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

Ann Powers

#25. A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.

Conan O'Brien

#26. I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

Neil Peart

#27. But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

Gore Vidal

#28. I love it when you talk clean to me, quoting training manuals like sonnets.

Amanda Hocking