Best Dog Days Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.”

Regret Summer Dog Days

Book:Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

“The dog days of my distant past haunt me at the dusk of my life while I get ready to embrace an eternal long night. My mistakes, my blemishes, my heartbreaks, and my ungainly acts remind me of the person I was in the younger days of my life.”

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Book:Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start

Source: Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start

“For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.”

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Author:Florence Welch

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”

“In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.”

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Author:Brené Brown

“the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.”

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Author:Natalie Babbitt

“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.”

“Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel.”

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Author:Albert Goldman

“No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.”

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Book:Moby Dick; or, The Whale

Source: Moby Dick; or, The Whale

“I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”

“Every dog must have his day.”

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

“'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.”

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Author:Florence Welch

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”

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Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.”

Source: A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”

“Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.”

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”

Source: Marley & Me

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

“There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.”

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Author:Juan Rulfo

“A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.”

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Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.”

“I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.”

“Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”

“Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.”

Firsts Littles Made Black Justice Dog Draws Rage Monsters Weather Guts Pairs Thieves Flash Highways Fiery Slick Lizards Moats Battering Dog Days

Author:Dante Alighieri

“I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.”

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Author:Guillaume Canet