Summer Quotes - Page 34

• 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.

  Bob Ney

  Gasoline Prices, Hurricanes, Driving

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• 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?

  William Westmoreland

  Vietnam, Impossible, Ends

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• A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Anger, Men, Air

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

  Fisher Stevens

  Addiction, Bali, Yeah

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

  Bryan Singer

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• 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.

  Ed Bradley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Games

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• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
  Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.
  Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing
  With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.

  William C. Bryant

  Autumn, Growth, Gold

  "Thirty Poems" by William C. Bryant, Appleton, New York, (pp. 112-115), 1864.

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• There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cities, Age, Want

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• 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.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Artist, Snow, Wife

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• Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find that the ranks have perceptibly thinned. The longshore captain is still there, many of the men who are not any older than myself, but their viewpoint is not that of a man who sailed his square rigged ship out one morning with China as his destination.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Morning, Men, Squares

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• The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Winter, White, East

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

  Gail Parent

  Girl, Sex, New York

  Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.46, The Overlook Press

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• Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Justice, Cottages, Maine

  The New York Times, July 6, 1980.

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• Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

  Hal Boyle

  Memories, Spring, Lying

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• France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Winter, France

  Mark Twain (2003). “Is He Dead?: A Comedy in Three Acts”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Mother, Husband, Fall

  Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.16, Penguin

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• Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

  John Banville

  Long, Childhood, Would Be

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Morning, Flower, Desert

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Men, Promise

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.855, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

  Ray Bradbury

  Autumn, July, August

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

  Henry James

  Drawing, Shadow, Duration

  Henry James (1875). “Transatlantic Sketches”, p.54

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• How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Winter, Night

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? ... Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Stupid, School

  "Right-Wing Media Aren't Concerned About Helping The Poor, But They Sure Want To Help The Rich" by Mike Burns, www.mediamatters.org. February 7, 2012.

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• To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

  Bel Kaufman

  Mother, Morning, Jobs

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.114, Open Road Media

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

  Claudia Schiffer

  Football, Together

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