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 It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they? - Carl Sagan There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling up at weddings, the glittery eye-prick, when all the couples would get up to dance. Sometimes it felt like your heart was crazed with cracks like your grandmother's old saucers. Sometimes the sight of a Saturday afternoon couple laughing in a park would splinter it completely. - Nikki Gemmell We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April ...

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. - Henry David Thoreau I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk. - Timothy Findley