Best Summer Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.”

Actors House Stage Car New York Summer Garage Making A Living Stage Actors

Author:William H. Macy

“In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.”

Responsibility Becoming Summer Western University Department Professors Academic Reserves Invited Chairman Ohio Cleveland Academic Life Cleveland Ohio

Author:George Andrew Olah

“Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.”

Seems Summer Forgotten Polls Rating Palin

Author:Ron Fournier

“I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.”

Has Beens Summer Holiday Shallow Turkeys

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.”

Kind Jobs Acting Dad Summer Moved My Dad Hung Michigan

Author:Evan Peters

“Summer is very precious.”

Summer

Author:Dylan Lauren

“If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Lines Late Summer South Heat September Masons

Author:Scott Porter

“In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.”

Political Serious Summer Spring China Disturbance

Author:Li Peng

“My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.”

World Country Used Records Mines Mom Development Summer Train My Mom Expected Chill

Author:Martha Plimpton

“I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.”

Men College Summer Garbage Jersey New Jersey Dump Yale Switzerland

Author:Tom Perrotta

“By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.”

Way Littles Jobs Taxes Summer Sick My Way Drank Brooklyn Bookstores Strands

Author:Robert Quine

“In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?”

Girl Feet Summer Hot Heat Boots Skirts Short Skirts Uggs Ugg Boots

Author:Jackson Rathbone

“The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.”

Firsts Novel Summer West Finished Ghana West Africa

Author:Taiye Selasi

“I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.”

Giving Mother Actors Four Week Summer Daughter Silly Nine Movie Turned Down Vancouver Silly Movie

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Heart Stills Brain Boys Summer First Time Albums Endless Beach This Day Bypass Beach Boys

Author:John Stamos

“Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.”

Men Problem Law Crime Summer Capable Men And Women Intelligent Hot Responsible Violent Ice Dry Summer Days Violent Crimes Solved Problems Hot Summer Dry Ice

Author:L. Neil Smith

“He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.”

Stills Water Flower Cold Summer Spring Green Smell Perfume Fragrance Cold Water

Book:Tinkers

Source: Tinkers

“Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.”

People Play Would Be Motivation Chance Wise Special Willing Summer Realistic Olympics Something Special Hometown

Author:Joe Sakic

“On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.”

Shows Summer Camps Summer Camp

Author:Marla Sokoloff

“I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.”

Has Beens Able Mother Television Summer Rivers Window Very Good East Apartment

Author:Susan Sullivan

“When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.”

Watches Emotional Summer Winter Olympics Wrecks Winter Olympics Emotional Wreck

Author:Bryn Terfel

“7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.”

Summer Miles Summer Time

Author:Obie Trice

“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.”

Want Firsts Children Country Wanted Jobs Community Cities Groups College Couple Involved Scene Summer Theater Get Involved Gigs Kentucky Maine

Author:Timothy Simons

“How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city”

Inspirational Reality Light Running Faces Cities Sun Buddhism Summer Mirrors Winter Heat Running Away Footsteps Knots Rainstorms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!”

Nature Environment Wise Crazy Summer Spring Winter Autumn Cheerful Natural Environment

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water!”

Giving Water Summer Bird Winter Bread Feds

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!”

Want May Dream Summer Spring Seasons Winter Autumn

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!”

Way War Moving Life Is Sorrow Summer Spring Devil Angel Perseverance Storm Firm Highways Sorrow And Happiness

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.”

I Can Seems Waiting Community Cities New York Activity Summer Yoga Available Parks Concerts New Yorkers Screening Central Park Smile More

Author:Kara Lindsay

“So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.”

Play School Order Stage New York Drama Summer Capacity Productions Looking For Work

Author:Linda Lavin

“You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.”

Thinking Writing Action Film Summer Intelligent Genre Find Me

Author:Max Landis

“I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.”

Writing Littles Play Kids House Hours Wife Six Summer My Family My Wife Maine

Author:Ben Marcus

“I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.”

Use Air Summer Winter Gray Jackets Conditioning Crank Air Conditioning

Author:Leslie Mann

“If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.”

Ifs Whole School Mother Son Summer If I Could My Son Camps Summer Camp

Author:Nate Mendel

“In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.”

New York Summer Theater Labs

Author:William Mapother

“I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.”

Care Jobs Masters Summer Units Clerks Undergraduate Nyu Intensive Care Unit

Author:Glen Mazzara

“I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.”

Years School Born Century Paper Summer Raised Seven Various Studios Selling Department Vacation Foxes 20th Century Papers Seven Years Born And Raised Timer Summer Vacation Old Timers

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.”

Streets Summer Hot Caught Dust Fallen Breeze Fallen Leaves Summer Breeze

Author:Scott Hastie

“I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.”

Years Wells May Whole School Values Week Summer Conviction Organized Camps Formal Summer Camp Whole Year School Work

Author:Charles William Eliot

“When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.”

Looks Young Girl Lost Summer Gains Weight Mirrors Disgusting

Author:Tyra Banks

“I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'”

Kind Would Be Kids Asks Parent Summer Ideals Things To Do

Author:Dwyane Wade

“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”

“Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.”

Stars Summer Stones Breaths Woods Warm Smell Clarity Smoke Autumn Sunlight Mistaken Montana Vapor

Author:Larry Watson

“My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.”

Littles Father Summer Boat Vacation Sailor Sailboat Summer Vacation Mopeds

Author:Ernesto Bertarelli

“In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.”

Thinking Way Firsts Play Lines Class Roles Summer Performances My Way Grades Villain Cried Sixth Grade

Author:Nicholas D'Agosto

“I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.”

Years Mother New York Taught Summer Southern Accents Broadway Modeling Southern Accent

Author:Nikki DeLoach

“When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.”

World Ideas Light Felt Car Grew Summer Grew Up Europe Grateful Sacred West Wide Stores No Idea Lakes New World Traveled Tents Gimmicks World Wide Web Guiding Light Great Lakes Sacred Texts

Author:Tony D'Souza

“I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they didn't expect. They want stuff that reminds them of the feelings that you get when you're watching art house movies but with the fun of like a big summer movie. That's the goal, I guess.”

People Want Feels Art Feelings Bigs House Fun Stuff Goal Summer Thrown Want Something

Author:Rian Johnson

“Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.”

Ifs Mind Long Water Six Summer Lows Rivers Eight Miles Bars Boat Dry Lazy Autumn Pool Twisted Wade Quicksand Shuddering

Book:Goodbye to a river: a narrative

Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative

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