Summer Quotes - Page 39

• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  Aaron Koblin

  Beach, Hippie, Reality

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• It’s always summer somewhere.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  FaceBook post by Lilly Pulitzer from Sep 02, 2013

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• To a hikikomori, winter is painful because everything feels cold, frozen over, and lonely. To a hikikomori, spring is also painful because everyone is in a good mood and therefore enviable. Summer, of course, is especially painful.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Lonely, Spring, Winter

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• Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life. I was beset on all sides by invisible worries. So, I shut myself in and slept. I slept until sleep exhausted me. Spring passed, summer ended, fall came, and then winter arrived. Then, it turned into another gentle spring.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Spring, Fall, Sleep

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• 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.

  Matthew Lesko

  Teacher, Volunteer, National Parks

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• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

  Bennett Madison

  Mother, Beach, Brother

  Bennett Madison (2013). “September Girls”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

  Matsuo Basho

  Dream, Warrior, Ancient

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• Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?

  Matsuo Basho

  Farewell, Tears, Fans

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• 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.

  Peter Bart

  Movie, Past, Years

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

  Tom Joyner

  School, Naacp, Integration

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• Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Sorry, Winter

  "Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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• Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight from a Danish summer's night. When covered by dew, silver can look like magical mist.

  Georg Jensen

  Taken, Night, Light

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• The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry leaves turned as red as roses; pristine white acacia petals shed an enshrouding pale-green aura. Mild evening breezes made both the mulberry leaves and the acacia petals dance and whirl, filling the woods with a soft rustle.

  Mo Yan

  Beautiful, Sunset, White

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• Being #1 on MSN is like being Valedictorian of summer school.

  Craig McDonald

  School, Marketing, Online

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• Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.

  Gary Snyder

  Rocks, Air, Burning

  Gary Snyder (1971). “The Back Country”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

  William Stafford

  Winter, Wind, Bye

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Summer fades; the first cold, Northern air
  Sweeps, like hatred, through still days -
  The August heat now gone elsewhere,
  To Southern, bird-filled coasts and bays;
  Amid constricting vales of cloud,
  A pale and liquid Autumn sun
  That once beat down on an empty plain
  And may again. And may again.

  Trevor Howard

  Autumn, Clouds, Air

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• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  Celia Thaxter

  Sweet, Laughter, Distance

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• 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.

  Stephen Sprouse

  Fashion, School, Long

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• 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.

  Gray Davis

  Years, Sight, People

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

  Davy Jones

  Saws, Gems, Screens

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• I found out this summer how to hook up my Xbox 360 in the hotel and get past security. It took me a while to figure out, but I got it now.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Xbox, Past, Hook

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• We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

  Hideo Kojima

  Spring, Autumn, Winter

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• 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.

  Patrick Geddes

  School, World, Next

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• This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

  Peter Higgs

  Useless

  "The Hunt for the Higgs Boson". Science Scotland, issue no. 3, www.sciencescotland.org. Winter 2004.

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