214 Quotes on Summer

• To embrace summer deeply is to shed the layers that shield us, making space for laughter, sun, and spontaneous adventures.

  Author: Clara Fields

• Embrace the smell of salt in the air and dance with your shadow, for readiness gives the gift of savoring each summer tale that unfolds.

  Author: Avid Humphrey

• To be truly ready for summer, embrace not just sheet-tanned escapism but also the promised thaw of curiosity in your flesh—connecting the warmth outside with the boiling blooms insightfully hidden within yourself.

  Author: Everly Dawn

• Embrace the dawn before noon's kiss; readiness for summer is knowing that every light pastel will be banked with refreshment, joy creeping in under cups of ice and sea salt breezes.

  Author: Aislyn Cray

• Prepare for summer not with sunscreen alone, but a heart open to fresh experiences and sand-tedd assignments.

  Author: Elara Coastman

• Summer readiness isn't just about packing your SPF; it's about setting your spirit free for adventures uncharted.

  Author: Olivia Pierre

• Prepare your mind to unfurl like wings as the sun weaves golden threads through our lives; summer is not just a season, but a call to dance with possibilities.

  Author: Jade Whims

• Summer is not just a season but a state of bustling potential—a signal to awaken every forgotten dream and dare to let the sun ink our adventures in vibrant memories.

  Author: Harper Winters

• Summer arrives like a colorful brush stroke waiting on forgotten canvases of the heart; embrace it with curiosity and daring to add vibrancy to each unmarked day.

  Author: Emilia Chen

• Summer demands a willingness to transform warmth into memories, shedding not only layers but also inhibitions.

  Author: Olivia Hayes

• Being ready for summer doesn't mean packing the fun; it means nurturing the spirit to bloom wide awake beneath the sun.

  Author: Maria Augusta

• When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

  Author: Dick York

• I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.

  Author: Joanne Woodward

• I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

  Author: Gilbert White

• Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

  Author: Gilbert White

• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

  Author: William Westmoreland

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

  Author: Mary Ward

• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

  Author: David Wain

• I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

  Author: David Wain

• I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

  Author: Peter Vries

• One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

  Author: Gianni Versace

• I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

  Author: Frankie Valli

• We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.

  Author: Anthea Turner

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

  Author: Obie Trice

• The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

  Author: John Thorn

• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Author: Keith Thibodeaux

• The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

  Author: Fisher Stevens

• It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.

  Author: George Stephanopoulos

• If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

  Author: Ben Stein

• I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

  Author: Danielle Steel

• But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

  Author: Stephen Sprouse

• In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

  Author: Joanna Southcott

• 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.

  Author: Marla Sokoloff

• 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.

  Author: L. Smith

• The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

  Author: Sarah Silverman

• There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

  Author: Percy Shelley

• I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while.

  Author: Ryan Sheckler

• Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

  Author: Harry Seidler

• Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

  Author: John Sebastian

• For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

  Author: Claudia Schiffer

• At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

  Author: Summer Sanders

• Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

  Author: Samuel Rutherford

• It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.

  Author: Diana Ross

• In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

  Author: Nora Roberts

• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  Author: Manfred Richthofen

• As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

  Author: John Reilly

• Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

  Author: Vanessa Redgrave

• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

  Author: Cole Porter

• Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

  Author: John Pople

• I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

  Author: John Pomfret

• I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

  Author: Rosamund Pike

• I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

  Author: Joaquin Phoenix

• Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

  Author: Sean Penn

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

  Author: Li Peng

• This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

  Author: James Patterson

• So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.

  Author: Evan Parker

• Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.

  Author: Jerry Orbach

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  Author: Ed O'Neill

• There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway.

  Author: Timothy Olyphant

• In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

  Author: Mike Oldfield

• Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.

  Author: Bob Ney

• People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

  Author: David Neeleman

• Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

  Author: Ajay Naidu

• Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.

  Author: Vic Morrow

• 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

  Author: Thomas More

• 'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

  Author: Edward Moore

• I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

  Author: Maria Mitchell

• Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

  Author: Donald Mitchell

• This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.

  Author: Gary Miller

• That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  Author: Aaron McGruder

• I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.

  Author: Bruce McCulloch

• After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

  Author: Harry Mathews

• I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

  Author: Andrea Martin

• 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.

  Author: William Macy

• We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

  Author: Archibald MacLeish

• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  Author: John Lubbock

• Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical.

  Author: David Lloyd

• We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

  Author: Arto Lindsay

• We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

  Author: Meriwether Lewis

• Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

  Author: C. Lewis

• Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.

  Author: Matthew Lesko

• One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

  Author: Aldo Leopold

• I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

  Author: Henry Kravis

• On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.

  Author: Lawrence Klein

• I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

  Author: Thomas Kinkade

• The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

  Author: Jackie Kennedy

• Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

  Author: Sam Keen

• We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

  Author: Robbie Keane

• So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

  Author: Peter Jurasik

• Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

  Author: Peter Jurasik

• The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.

  Author: Tom Joyner

• I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

  Author: William Joyce

• During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

  Author: Davy Jones

• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Author: Gertrude Jekyll

• I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

  Author: Calamity Jane

• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

  Author: Henry James

• By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

  Author: Helen Jackson

• I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

  Author: LL J

• We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

  Author: Laura Innes

• Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

  Author: Ada Huxtable

• I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

  Author: Jane Hull

• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  Author: Langston Hughes

• The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.

  Author: David Houston

• We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook.

  Author: Katie Holmes

• It will not always be summer; build barns.

  Author: Hesiod

• God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

  Author: Heraclitus

• We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.

  Author: Patricia Heaton

• Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

  Author: Randy Harrison

• Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

  Author: Sydney Harris

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  Author: Dag Hammarskjold

• We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

  Author: Philip Hamerton

• When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

  Author: Merle Haggard

• I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

  Author: Margaret Haddix

• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  Author: Wavy Gravy

• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  Author: Ulysses Grant

• I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

  Author: Sue Grafton

• After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.

  Author: Mark-Paul Gosselaar

• I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

  Author: Genevieve Gorder

• Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

  Author: Andy Goldsworthy

• Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

  Author: Danny Glover

• I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.

  Author: David Ginola

• Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

  Author: Jami Gertz

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  Author: Patrick Geddes

• 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.

  Author: Jeff Foxworthy

• Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

  Author: Bobby Flay

• The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

  Author: Edward Everett

• When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

  Author: Jim Evans

• My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

  Author: Jim Evans

• Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

  Author: Nora Ephron

• They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.

  Author: David Ellis

• You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

  Author: Black Elk

• I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

  Author: Black Elk

• A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

  Author: Raymond Duncan

• Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

  Author: Alexander Dubcek

• No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  Author: John Donne

• In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.

  Author: Norm Dicks

• So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.

  Author: Norm Dicks

• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Author: Charles Dickens

• WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.

  Author: Dixie Dean

• I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

  Author: Richard Davis

• It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

  Author: Rebecca Davis

• The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

  Author: Marc Davis

• There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

  Author: Gray Davis

• We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

  Author: Gray Davis

• People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

  Author: Ray Davies

• I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

  Author: Tony Curtis

• Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

  Author: James Cronin

• You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

  Author: Elvis Costello

• Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

  Author: Barry Cornwall

• The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

  Author: Ezra Cornell

• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

  Author: Marie Corelli

• We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

  Author: Toni Collette

• I did two or three plays every summer.

  Author: Dabney Coleman

• In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

  Author: Hugo Claus

• One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

  Author: Eric Clapton

• Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

  Author: Thomas Church

• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Author: Anton Chekhov

• It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

  Author: John Cheever

• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

  Author: Lizzy Caplan

• In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

  Author: Albert Camus

• I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.

  Author: Jeremy Bulloch

• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

  Author: William Bryant

• I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

  Author: Robert Bridges

• Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

  Author: Georg Brandes

• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  Author: Ed Bradley

• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  Author: Hal Borland

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  Author: Hal Borland

• My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.

  Author: Lizzie Borden

• Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

  Author: Jan Bont

• Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

  Author: Edmund Blunden

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  Author: Orlando Bloom

• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  Author: William Bligh

• In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

  Author: William Bligh

• The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

  Author: Richard Blackmore

• I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

  Author: James Black

• The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

  Author: Buffalo Bill

• Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

  Author: Judy Biggert

• The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

  Author: Joe Biden

• I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

  Author: Elmer Bernstein

• I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day.

  Author: Tom Berenger

• Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

  Author: Robert Benchley

• I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

  Author: Brendan Behan

• I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

  Author: Ann Beattie

• Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

  Author: Peter Bart

• Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

  Author: Russell Baker

• Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

  Author: Dusty Baker

• Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

  Author: Alfred Austin

• For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

  Author: Aristotle

• Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

  Author: Sidney Altman

• Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.

  Author: Richard Allen

• I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

  Author: Shaun Alexander

• We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

  Author: James Agee

• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

  Author: Diane Ackerman

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