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“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”

Country Would Be Three Difficult Cities Knowing Four Demand Meetings Prepared Tricks Extras Afternoon Senate Twelve Friday Council Realised Reactionaries Julius Lunchtime Friday Afternoon

Author:Ken Livingstone

“Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.”

Night Certain Sound Four Late Sick Afternoon Scott Fitzgerald

Book:The good word & other words

Source: The good word & other words

“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”

Stills Done Happens Kids House Rooms Boys Four Baseball Things Happen Afternoon Inches Adolescence Bats Living Room Spooky Baffled

Author:Mary Blakely

“At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.”

Four Salvation Glad Afternoon Highways Tidings

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.

“If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.”

Ifs World Way Years Looks Ends Religious Millions Four This World Thousand Six Hundred Afternoon

Author:Arundhati Roy

“I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.”

Sometimes Night Hours Sleep Five Four Dinner Evening Afternoon Naps

Author:Dan Chaon

“If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Play Four Advice Give Me Clock Things To Do Right Thing Seconds Afternoon Saturday Monday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Alex Agase

“I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.”

Two Home School Night Hours Half Practice Morning Four Grew Bed Ten Six Grew Up Seven Guitar Eight Nine Clock Afternoon Dedication Fifteen Fourteen

Author:Joe Pass

“Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)”

Firsts Has Beens Used Morning Five Four Holy Mountain Crosses Cameras Sensitive Afternoon Plates Noon Matching Shutters Holy Cross

Book:An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

Source: An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

“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.”

Thinking Father Five Four Stores Farmers Afternoon Saturday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Dinah Shore

“I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.”

Three Hours Walks Morning Four Late Afternoon Gin Back In Time Gin And Tonic

Author:J. G. Ballard