Quotes with evening

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  • Al Stewart The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • W. H. Auden The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Willa Cather The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Alfred Jarry The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Kin Hubbard The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Beryl Markham The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • William Blake Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793) 41
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • André Malraux To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George Steiner We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Bob Schieffer We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Sinclair Lewis What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Oscar Wilde With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Arthur Golden You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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