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“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.”

People Thinking Kind Book President Attention Trump Discipline Empathy Evidence Adults Praise Ill Oneself Available Active Mediums Evening Starks Markers No Empathy

Author:Ben H. Winters

“Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.”

Thinking Morning Duty Evening

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.”

Giving Should Mind States Deals Enemy Poverty Morning Achieve Worst Circumstances Conflict Resources Inequality Evening State Of Mind Ups & Downs Worst Enemy

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant at the same time. It's not eccentric, and everything he does is very subtle. For the evening, I like Gianfranco Ferre. There's a lot of fantasy and creativity in his clothes.”

Thinking Doe Today Simple Creativity Fantasy Clothes Ideals Evening Subtle Elegant Eccentric Armani

Author:Sophia Loren

“You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.”

Comedy Tragedy Theater Evening Satisfying

Author:Cate Blanchett

“When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.”

People Firsts Wanted Actors Felt Audience Walking Behavior Drinking Actresses Evening Smoking Cigarette Gowns Martini Smoking Cigarettes Actors And Actresses Evening Gowns

Author:Bette Midler

“[Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."”

Ifs Want Years Mind Wells Said Ends Changed Painting Evening Workshops Apprentice I've Changed Ceramics

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“We could make our own pots on the weekends and in the evenings, and we used to do that, and these would be fired in the big kiln, along with all the standard ware that we were producing, but this wasn't quite what we had expected when we read The Potters Book.”

Book Bigs Would Be Used Standards Expected Evening Pot Weekend Potters

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“When you're making art, there's a lot of self-importance attached to that, but at the end of the day, you can always fall back on the fact that it's just a play. It's not like the Iraq War or something. We're not causing anybody any harm, other than a couple hours of a wasted evening.”

Art War Ends Self Play Facts Fall Hours Couple Importance Iraq Harm Evening The End Of The Day Iraq War Fall Back Self-importance

Author:Glen Berger

“After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.”

Art Inspiring Painting Storm Evening Tea Village Gathering Session Dusk Bowling

Author:Gustav Klimt

“For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.”

World Wells Helping Would Be Company One Thing Building Entrepreneur Evening Entertaining

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.”

Wells Lord Forgiveness Absolutes Evening Judged Loving Life

Book:The Irrational Season

Source: The Irrational Season

“What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!”

Love Stars Morning Evening Best Love Good Morning What Is Love Best Ever Love Red Lights

Author:Sinclair Lewis

“I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.”

Men Home Light Night Enjoy Please Evening Kicks Providing Looking Forward Cigar Light Up Seattle Stay At Home Please Stay

Author:Tom Leykis

“I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.”

Life Has Beens Stills Light Together Lasts Morning Our Lives Rivers Overcoming Setting Settings Evening Lakes Richness Early Morning Life Together Rivers And Lakes

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.”

People Thinking Looks Sound Hours Sun Shadow Gold Wake Up Coffee Lovely Golden Evening Awake Yellow Pints Golden Hour

Author:Stacy London

“I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.”

Looks Real Guy Laughing Hearing Evening Fabulous

Author:Eva Longoria

“When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.”

Ifs Needs I Can Light House Creative Cold Summer Draws Good Things Winter Drawing Evening Collections Warmth

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.”

Beautiful Sound Voice Common Records Fans Band Incredibles Singers Evening Atlas Old Records

Author:Christian Louboutin

“These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.”

Night Sleep Morning Flower Arms Cold Heartbreak Wake Up Evening Dawn Waking Splendid Pitiful Sleeping In Frivolity Cold Night

Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.”

Sides Magic Pure Hollywood Evening Genes Charmed

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.”

Mind Social Youth Bears Balls Evening Grass Kicks Britain Patches Nowhere To Go

Author:John Lydon

“I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.”

Government Morning Evening Employee Government Employees

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.”

Speak Language Ability Television My Family Evening Miserable Ability To Speak

Author:David Mamet

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”

Love Art Stars Beauty Air Thousand Romantic Evening Your Beautiful Faustus Cute Romantic

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)

“I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”

Humor Funny Wonderful Witty Evening Cute Insult Sarcasm Sarcastic Miscellaneous Old Jokes Funny And Witty Funny Witty Classic Insult Dark Sarcasm Funny Clever Clever And Witty Wit And Humor

Author:Groucho Marx

“Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.”

Feels Evening Sunday Weekend Sunday Evening

Author:Catherine McCormack

“My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.”

“Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.”

Men Giving Sometimes Whole Character Inspiring Party Wife Dangerous Give Me Corners Wide Evening Spokes Frightened Gang Ganging Up

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.”

Trying Eye Force Land Fingers Evening Settling Theme Maps Routine Dishes Cuisine

Author:Mario Batali

“There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.”

Moments Hands Earth Left Moon Summer Wine Evening Lakes June

Author:Charles Morgan

“The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.”

Men Literature Prayer Sleep Evening Captains Sentinels Evening Prayer

Book:Intimate Journals

Source: Intimate Journals

“On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.”

States Running House President United United States College Serious News Court Campaigns Supreme Evening League Speakers Solo Supreme Court Astronaut Anchors Ivy Ivy League

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.”

Ought Boxes Evening Retirement Retiring Burned Retired Funny Retirement Fireplaces Retirement Humor

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.”

Giving Littles Home Break Evening Cinema Pleasant Afternoon Surroundings Monotonous Monotony

Author:Ivor Novello

“The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Has Beens Facts Sleep Morning Wake Up Tired Decades Evening Afternoon Going To Sleep I'm Tired Slough

Author:Susan Orlean

“In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.”

Film Progress Building Performances Theater Evening Movie Relinquishing Relinquishing Control

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.”

Doe Happiness Joy Laughter Evening Dew Joy Of Life Joy Of Living Hailstorms

Author:Jean Paul

“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”

Light Seems Time Hair Moon Evening Fancy Gray Gray Hair

Author:Jean Paul

“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.”

Death Darkness Dying Objects Lovely Evening Death And Dying Twilight

Author:Jean Paul

“I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.”

Thinking Blue Shoes Evening Tonight Blue Eyes

Author:Elvis Presley

“This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.”

People Should Christian Beautiful Wish Travel Evening Funny Travel Accompany Pilgrimage Accompany Us

Author:Timothy Radcliffe

“The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.”

Different Evening Companion Qualifications

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”

Age Passion Morning Middle Youth Periods Shadow Aging Disappear Evening Young Age Middle Ages Good Morning Infirmity Age Of 40 40th Birthday

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.”

Able Suffering Literature Evening Heels Complaints High Heels Removal Neckties

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Shows Would Be Today Lasts America Week News Caring Evening Charm Virginia Rating Sweetheart Katie Last Place

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.”

Play Acting Stage Office Evening Stage Play

Author:Arthur Smith

“The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.”

Said Life Is Quality Morning Higher Evening Quality Of Life Surf Skis Skiing

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“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.”

Knows Men Play Culture Politics Morning Evening Auschwitz Schubert

Author:George Steiner

“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”

Morning Sun Kings Sitting Evening Thrones Noon Pageant Promenade

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

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