Summer Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024
‘Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.’ – Hosea Ballou
‘Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.’ – Langston Hughes
‘In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.’ – Albert Camus
‘Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.’ – Brian Wilson
‘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.’ – John Lubbock
‘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.’ – Charles Dickens
‘Yellow is my favorite summer color – it makes me feel like a sunflower.’ – Bria Vinaite
‘I hate summer, to be honest. I hate dressing. I hate the heat. I hate sweaty people getting aggressively close to you when you’re walking down the street.’ – Johnny Weir
‘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.’ – Diane Ackerman
‘Tears are the summer showers to the soul.’ – Alfred Austin
‘I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.’ – Ulysses S. Grant
‘Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.’ – Tyler Perry
‘People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.’ – Anton Chekhov
‘Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.’ – Regina Brett
‘Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.’ – Buzz Aldrin
‘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.’ – Aristotle
‘Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.’ – Sam Keen
‘If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.’ – Katie Lee
‘Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.’ – Henry James
‘I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.’ – Peter De Vries
‘Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.’ – Russell Baker
‘My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum – I hated it.’ – Brooke Burns
‘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.’ – Jim Rohn
‘Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.’ – C. Day Lewis
‘God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.’ – Heraclitus
‘When I was like 10 or 11, I lived in Switzerland for a bit. It was beautiful. All my cousins and stuff lived there, so every winter and summer, we would go spend it with them, but it was pretty different. I went to a boarding school, so I got to meet people from all different ethnicities, it was cool.’ – Rubi Rose
‘Potential is like a summer crop. If it don’t rain, it don’t grow.’ – Charles Oakley
‘Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton
‘No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.’ – John Donne
‘Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.’ – Nora Ephron
‘The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I’m in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on ‘Mary Poppins,’ lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.’ – Dick Van Dyke
‘Purple is my favorite color. It makes me think of spring and summer. A purple dress, eating grapes, lilacs – I love purple.’ – Angela Yee
‘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.’ – Brendan Behan
‘I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.’ – George Lucas
‘One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.’ – Aldo Leopold
‘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.’ – William Bligh
‘Some calamities – the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 – have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America’s Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.’ – George Will
‘Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.’ – Bryan Procter
‘The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.’ – John Tyler Bonner
‘I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.’ – Jimmy Buffett
‘The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.’ – Henry Adams
‘We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.’ – Henry Rollins
‘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.’ – Gertrude Jekyll
‘I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we’d sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.’ – Brad Pitt
”Saturday Night Live’ was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.’ – Howard Shore
‘He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.’ – John Burroughs
‘I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I’m dying to go to a space camp next summer!’ – Natalie Portman
‘Cindy had two kids. We did manage to keep playing and doing summer tours with the Go-Gos, the Pretenders, and Blondie.’ – Kate Pierson
‘When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.’ – Taylor Swift
‘I actually don’t think Ireland has a summer. I never experienced a summer there. It was just so wet.’ – Travis Fimmel
‘In the hot summer months, popsicles are a perfect way to cool down while enjoying a delicious, fruity treat. Frozen, refreshing, mouth-friendly candy on a stick cannot get any better… or can it?’ – Marcus Samuelsson
‘I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.’ – Bo Burnham
‘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!’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Every summer’s mine.’ – DJ Khaled
‘Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.’ – Hal Borland
‘Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.’ – Guy Finley
‘Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.’ – Thomas Carlyle
‘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.’ – Norm Dicks
‘Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘With skirts even a mid-calf length, the legs are visible almost to the knee when you sit down. And during the summer, with bathing suits and shorts, they really take over. I think every girl should do all she can to make her legs as attractive as possible.’ – Amanda Blake
‘I went bald when I was 18. My father cried. He cried about many things. But it allowed me to play older men in summer stock.’ – Jeffrey Tambor
‘I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.’ – Robert Bridges
‘Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.’ – Erma Bombeck
”The Summer I Turned Pretty’ is about how, as a young woman, everyone gets that moment of being in bloom, but nobody really appreciates it.’ – Jenny Han
‘In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they’re an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it’s the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.’ – John Ralston Saul
‘We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.” – Lou Holtz
‘Steve Allen was on Johnny Carson one time – I looked for it, but I couldn’t find it – and he read the lyrics to ‘Hot Stuff’ by Donna Summer like a poet. He read them very seriously. I was maybe 8, but it killed me.’ – Neal Brennan
‘What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love’s the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.’ – Robert Burton
‘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.’ – James Agee
‘I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you’ll always find me, summer or winter.’ – Candace Bushnell
‘I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.’ – Otis Redding
‘From an early age, Yosemite became the centre of my universe. I’ve been going every summer since I was a child. I love everything about that place: waterfalls, high-quality rock, history.’ – Tommy Caldwell
‘I didn’t know the term ‘synesthesia’ until I was working on ‘Cruel Summer.’ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.’ – Kanye West
‘There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn’t help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.’ – Mick Mulvaney
‘You don’t go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you’re building a golf course.’ – Arnold Palmer
‘Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.’ – Luis Walter Alvarez
‘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.’ – Wavy Gravy
‘By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.’ – Buzz Aldrin
‘I’m a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.’ – Sloane Crosley
‘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.’ – Mark Spitz
‘Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world’s most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.’ – Xavi
‘I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That’s what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!’ – Raini Rodriguez
‘My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast.’ – Karamo Brown
‘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.’ – Danny Glover
‘Write about winter in the summer.’ – Annie Dillard
‘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.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis
‘I used to love going to the hat store, like Lids, when I was younger and getting a new hat for the school year or for the summer. I was always super pumped about that.’ – Auston Matthews
‘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.’ – Evan Peters
‘We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in the summer. And we probably cannot prevent the melting of the permafrost and the resulting release of methane. In addition, I fear that we may be too late to help the oceans maintain their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.’ – Prince Charles
‘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.’ – Marie Corelli
‘Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.’ – Heinrich Boll
‘I started working with Special Olympics when I was 17 years old. I’ll never forget the first time I did it: I was at Weber State, and it was the summer before I started school. We have to get up in the morning and do this Special Olympics camp.’ – Damian Lillard
‘In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I’d never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, ‘stripeys,’ which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.’ – Daniel Boulud
‘There are many Summer ingredients I love: one of my favourite times is when the cherries are ready!’ – Monica Galetti
‘I’m not so good during the summer, because that’s when all my superpowers go away.’ – Mason Ramsey
‘Summer at the Hollis household is all about us getting together and enjoying the pool, and Fourth of July is probably one of my favorite holidays to do just that.’ – Rachel Hollis
”Rent’ was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.’ – Stephen Chbosky
‘I went with a pixie cut when my daughter was really young. It was easy – I mean, it was really easy. But I missed my long hair. Especially after a long winter, all I want is sexy summer hair.’ – Katie Holmes
‘The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the ground. I also love the middle of summer when fruit is bursting forth, but I even love the garden in the winter when everything is resting.’ – Ross Gay
‘I read Henry Miller’s ‘Nexus,’ ‘Sexus’ and ‘Plexus’ the summer after I graduated from college. It cemented my decision to spurn any and all careers.’ – David Berman
‘But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.’ – Mary Augusta Ward
‘A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.’ – Richard Jefferies
‘Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing ‘She Loves You’ in August 1963.’ – Gordon Lightfoot
‘When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.’ – Roxane Gay
‘The first time I ever actually had a line was on ‘A Different World’, my best friend Cree Summer’s show. I was in L.A. visiting her, and she said, ‘Hey, there’s a walk-on part, why don’t you audition for it?” – Tamara Taylor
‘I’d studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn’t worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.’ – Gene Kelly
‘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.’ – Samuel Rutherford
‘Nothing says summer to me more than Notting Hill Carnival.’ – Jax Jones
‘My poor children have been the subject of all of my experiments. We’re still doing what I call ‘Amish summers’ where I turn off all electronics and pack away all their computers and stuff and watch them scream for a while until they settle down into, like, an electronic-free summer.’ – Shonda Rhimes
‘There’s kind of a summer camp aspect of filming on location.’ – Glen Powell
‘It will not always be summer; build barns.’ – Hesiod
‘A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.’ – Raymond Duncan
‘I think that Jersey Shore is awesome. I’ve gone to Cape May every summer of my life.’ – Anne Hathaway
‘I’ve always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn’t look her in the eye.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
‘So much of the bitterness that the term ‘McCarthyism’ evokes refers to the probe begun in New Jersey in the summer of 1953 – both in the laboratories of Fort Monmouth and in the surrounding communities of Red Bank and Belmar, where some of the best scientists and engineers in America worked.’ – David Oshinsky
‘Summer is very precious.’ – Dylan Lauren
‘I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.’ – Calamity Jane
‘When I was wee, in the middle of the summer, the big field behind the shops would be filled with dry grass and I’d get a box of matches. You chuck one match on that and the whole thing goes up in flames. Twitter’s a bit like that. You can just say one thing and it explodes from there.’ – Limmy
‘I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.’ – David Wain
‘I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter – some as young as 12 years old. It’s such a spectacular sight. It’s incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.’ – Caitriona Balfe
‘I hate camping, but I love summer camp.’ – Zooey Deschanel
‘I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly – just so that I can keep up with my training.’ – Lee Byung-hun
‘Swedish people live for the summer – it transforms everyone. I don’t want to miss having a Swedish summer vacation for as long as I live. It’s my favorite thing in the world.’ – Elsa Hosk
‘There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.’ – Rudolfo Anaya
‘Being in hockey shape is totally different than any other kind of fitness. You can run and bike and work out all summer and then go on the ice for one shift and you’re dead.’ – Joe Thornton
‘My morning routine varies by how much time I have. In the winter, I like to take baths, but in the summer, I prefer a good shower with some soap and then maybe some moisturizer afterward. I use D.R. Harris and Geo. F. Trumper products, which we also stock at our shops in Paris and Antwerp.’ – Dries van Noten
‘In the summer months, I like as little makeup as possible – I don’t want to be too painted. I might put a little cover-up to smooth everything out.’ – Jillian Hervey
‘I tried to swim as much as possible. Being in Southern California in the summer time, it’s so nice because you have the warm beaches, so I try to swim every day.’ – Klay Thompson
‘Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.’ – Paul Theroux
‘In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.’ – Bernard Sumner
‘My high school job was putting insulation in attics – in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn’t know any different. It wasn’t like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.’ – James Carville
‘One summer, my friend and I went to summer camp, and I acted in some plays there, and I fell in love with it.’ – Ryan Eggold
‘I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.’ – Martha Stewart
‘When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages.’ – Zazie Beetz
‘Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.’ – Gary Zukav
‘The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.
‘I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, ‘I gotta go to Broadway.” – Rita Rudner
‘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.’ – Donald G. Mitchell
‘I think ‘Baywatch’ will be a summer blockbuster, and I’m not just saying it because I’m in it. I saw a bunch of scenes right now, and it’s the funniest movie ever. Dwayne and Zac Efron have the best chemistry, and I come and interrupt their chemistry.’ – Priyanka Chopra
‘Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.’ – Robert Baden-Powell
‘I’d knocked on doors when I’d gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn’t have an agent.’ – Shoshannah Stern
‘The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers.’ – Nick Davies
‘I’m obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don’t feel totally guilty eating it. It’s not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it’s a great way to just refresh.’ – Caroline Sunshine
‘Make sure you have a dehumidifier if your house is too humid in the summer, or a humidifier if it’s too dry in the winter.’ – Bryan Baeumler
‘The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.’ – Tom Joyner
‘I studied physics 12 in summer school after I completed grade 12. Did I enjoy it initially? No, I had found physics difficult since grade 11, and I struggled a lot. Did I learn from it? Yes, and as I improved, I started enjoying it more.’ – Ann Makosinski
‘In the summer of ’80, Silhouette bought my first book.’ – Nora Roberts
‘When I was 19 years old, I quit football completely. For about a month, I stayed at home in a depression. This was in the summer of 2008.’ – Paulinho
‘It’s going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.’ – George Stephanopoulos
‘I work all summer and throughout the whole season to be prepared for the challenges that I have to face.’ – Kawhi Leonard
‘I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn’t be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.’ – Amy Sedaris
‘When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that’s lost. It doesn’t exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.’ – Ansel Elgort
‘The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.’ – Robert Fulghum
‘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
‘An English summer’s day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!’ – Romain Grosjean
‘In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.’ – John Burroughs
‘I just thought making machines intelligent was the coolest thing you could do. I had a summer internship in AI in high school, writing neural networks at National University of Singapore – early versions of deep learning algorithms. I thought it was amazing you could write software that would learn by itself and make predictions.’ – Andrew Ng
‘I find it not hard to make friends, but it’s definitely different when I go somewhere like summer camp and everyone already knows that I’m in ‘Hunger Games’… My life is still pretty normal, and I still have some really great friends.’ – Willow Shields
‘People seldom think of soup for summer, so they are unusual – an interesting, unusual touch for the first course or for dessert. I find cold soups very refreshing. I serve them in cups rather than in bowls, usually, and let people sip them. You don’t really need a spoon for soups that are all one consistency.’ – Ruth Glick
‘My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer – making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.’ – Jenkin Lloyd Jones
‘August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.’ – Henry Rollins
‘I grew up in Ireland, in the Wicklow Mountains just behind Dublin, and got a job in a Volkswagen garage when I was 14. I did it in the summer for about five weeks. My father thought it would be a great idea because I was really into bikes.’ – Charley Boorman
‘I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.’ – Fisher Stevens
‘During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.’ – Darell Hammond
‘My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on’ Angela’s Ashes,’ but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.’ – Kerry Condon
‘I trained for four years in Toronto, and even before that, I was back and forth between Canada and the States during summer for training. And, since there isn’t much difference between Canada and the States, I haven’t felt much difference in the environment.’ – Kim Yuna
‘When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.’ – Mary Pope Osborne
‘While ‘The Endless Summer’ poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images.’ – John Van Hamersveld
‘I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.’ – Alice Waters
‘A lot of the time, we’re shooting summer campaigns in winter because they have to come out the next season. It’s the hardest to feel great in a bikini when it’s cold… so I appreciate a swimsuit shoot that’s in warm weather.’ – Gigi Hadid
‘On the plus side, leaving Leeds meant I have been able to spend a lot of time with the family, enjoying a very rare summer off and my first Christmas without work worries since I was a teenager. I was also able to accept an offer to work with BT Sport.’ – Neil Warnock
‘I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.’ – Ann Voskamp
‘I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.’ – Patrick Nielsen Hayden
‘For me, Hyderabad was all about summer holidays, rasam rice, spicy pickles, and more.’ – Aditi Rao Hydari
‘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.’ – Hal Borland
‘I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.’ – Frankie Valli
‘My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.’ – David Mixner
‘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.’ – Jami Gertz
‘The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.’ – John Burroughs
‘A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer.’ – Claudette Colvin
‘Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.’ – Rory MacLean
‘I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.’ – Charles M. Blow
‘I was working summer jobs since I was like 11.’ – Cordae
‘That’s why you can’t be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned – the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?’ – Julia Glass
‘Usually summer colors and vibes go well with Twice, I think, because we’re bright and fresh.’ – Nayeon
‘I work nights on a farm in the summer when harvest starts. I work on a civil engineering site down the Humber Docks where all the refineries are. So that’s my day job from seven to four. And then I build engines at night.’ – Guy Martin
‘I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.’ – Lewis Black
‘I like to play music; play guitar – I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That’s nice.’ – Henrik Lundqvist
‘I think the fascination with zombies is that they don’t obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.’ – Max Brooks
‘Sprinting for a full day in Atlanta in midsummer proved very challenging. That humidity is crazy. Georgia is a beautiful state, but the weather is intense. I was warned, but for some reason I thought it would be like L.A. in the summer. The reality? No.’ – Theo James
‘From day one in summer league, I had a chip on my shoulder.’ – Jordan Clarkson
‘Going into my second Summer League, I felt like I had more knowledge. Just being around the game and learning your routines, and just learning from other guys that you’re around, you feel like you pick up on a lot of stuff.’ – Terry Rozier
‘Rubbing meat or vegetables with sweet and savoury spices before roasting or sizzling on a grill is what summer nights are all about.’ – Rachel Khoo
‘I grew up watching ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘The O.C.,’ and I looked up to Blair Waldorf and Summer Roberts.’ – Camila Mendes
‘I tried, after I wrote ‘Twilight,’ to read ‘The Historian,’ because it was the big thing that summer. But I can’t read other people’s vampires. If it’s too close, I get upset; if it’s too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.’ – Stephenie Meyer
‘If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that’s brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don’t have that with the Summer Games. They don’t have anything that’s drawing in a younger viewership.’ – Tony Hawk
‘In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.’ – Peter Lynch
‘To me, nothing says summer like enjoying a lobster roll at my favorite spots in the Hamptons.’ – Katie Lee
‘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.’ – Andy Goldsworthy
‘My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.’ – George Clooney
‘There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which taught rapping and dancing. I begged my mom to attend that school to learn how to rap.’ – G-Dragon
‘During the summer of 2000, in the run-up to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh if he was hoping to reach 100. ‘Good God, no,’ he spluttered, ‘I can’t imagine anything worse. What a ghastly idea.” – Gyles Brandreth
”Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.’ – Edward Moore
‘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.’ – Meriwether Lewis
‘I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.’ – Dan Brown
‘I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in ‘Colossus’ could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.’ – Colson Whitehead
‘Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.’ – Nash Grier
‘I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.’ – Caitlin Flanagan
‘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.’ – Elvis Costello
‘Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven’t been on a diet since the Reagan administration.’ – Victoria Moran
‘If there’s a ‘Cruel Summer’ then there’s got to be a ‘Cruel Winter,’ right? That’s all I’m saying.’ – Q-Tip
‘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.’ – William Cullen Bryant
‘Dehydration is a serious problem, particularly for young hedgehogs in the summer, so having some water out that they can drink is important.’ – Steve Backshall
‘While both plants and animals awaken via distinct changes in metabolic functioning, most plants prefer to err on the side of caution, waiting for hints of full-on summer before they bloom.’ – Hope Jahren
‘I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.’ – Matthew Desmond
‘I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.’ – Margaret Atwood
‘Most people think of January 1st as the start of a new year. To people who espouse to Catholicism and Christianity, they might correlate that with the birth of Christ. Us in football, the start of spring practice and the first day of summer training camp are what you look at as the New Year with fireworks going off, it’s your birthday.’ – Jim Harbaugh
‘Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.’ – Emma Roberts
”Arctic Summer,’ as you might know, is the title of Forster’s one unfinished novel.’ – Damon Galgut
‘Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.’ – Ma Jun
‘I lived in Cleveland for a summer when I was 12, and I was a ball boy for the Browns, which few people know.’ – Casey Wasserman
‘I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children’s theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in ‘Agamemnon’ and I was like, ‘OK, this is amazing.” – Rachel McAdams
‘Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.’ – Jerry Saltz
‘In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It’s almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It’s perfect.’ – Ethan Canin
‘While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off.’ – John Roberts
‘The Red Cross Gala is unique. There’s great history there. It’s the highlight of the summer in terms of social and charity events.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
‘I always spend my summer in Ghana. I don’t go anywhere else.’ – Michael Essien
‘I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn’t seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.’ – Will Ferrell
‘In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the ‘New Annual Register,’ the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind.’ – William Godwin
‘The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars – a Mercedes, say.’ – Owen King
‘Pride is not just any summer festival. It is a celebration – but it is also a manifestation of human rights. It is serious – and joyful. It is a reminder of the progress that has been made – but also of everything that still remains to be done.’ – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
‘It’s funny: I did ‘Step Brothers’ the same summer I did ‘Revolutionary Road,’ which are completely different.’ – Kathryn Hahn
‘In the summer, I would play street hockey every day with my cousins and my brothers. And in the winter we’d play on the backyard rink.’ – Joe Thornton
‘In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.’ – Barack Obama
‘I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that’s how it started. My mum said, ‘Why don’t you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,’ and that’s how I started playing.’ – Sania Mirza
‘With summer in Chennai, I am struggling with my long hair. I do my own hair-dos which are comfortable.’ – Suhasini Maniratnam
‘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.’ – Jackie Kennedy
‘When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.’ – Sarah Hyland
‘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.’ – Alexander Dubcek
‘By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson
‘So, when I was eight or nine my mom’s friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and Crofts’ ‘Summer Breeze’… When I found it I stopped going through the bag because I was like, well, I’m not going to find anything better than this. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever heard.’ – Aldous Harding
‘At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.’ – Gary Zukav
‘Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll
‘Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.’ – Sydney J. Harris
‘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.’ – Archibald MacLeish
‘We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.’ – Philip Gilbert Hamerton
‘With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.’ – Hugh Grant
‘It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.’ – John Cheever
‘I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.’ – Cole Porter
‘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.’ – Ada Louise Huxtable
‘In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.’ – Manfred von Richthofen
‘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.’ – LL Cool J
‘Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.’ – Vanessa Redgrave
‘The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.’ – John Knowles
‘People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.’ – Ray Davies
‘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.’ – Richard Blackmore
‘In summer winter rain or sun, it’s good to be on horseback.’ – Mike Oldfield
‘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.’ – Dusty Baker
‘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
‘The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.’ – Sarah Silverman
‘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!’ – Trip Hawkins
‘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.’ – Vic Morrow
‘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.’ – Norm Dicks
‘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.’ – Sidney Altman
‘I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.’ – Jane D. Hull
‘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.’ – Kathy Valentine
‘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.’ – Lizzie Andrew Borden
‘I’m generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America – especially with summer movies.’ – Elmer Bernstein
‘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
‘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.’ – Toni Collette
‘In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.’ – Hugo Claus
‘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.’ – Joaquin Phoenix
‘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.’ – John C. Reilly
‘I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.’ – John Pomfret
‘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.’ – James Patterson
‘I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.’ – James Black
‘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.’ – Richard V. Allen
‘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.’ – Margaret Haddix
‘In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.’ – Li Peng
‘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.’ – David Wain
‘If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?’ – Harold Ford, Jr.
‘In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.’ – Doc Hastings
‘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.’ – Ezra Cornell
‘What I loved about ‘Summer’ was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.’ – Kevin Williamson
‘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.’ – Dick York
‘After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.’ – Donna Rice
‘One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.’ – Sarah Vowell
‘I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.’ – Black Elk
‘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.’ – Black Elk
‘The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.’ – Joanna Southcott
‘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
‘Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.’ – Bobby Flay
‘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.’ – Randy Harrison
‘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.’ – Sean Penn
‘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
‘You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they’re gonna get rich off of the merchandise.’ – Aaron McGruder
‘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.’ – Marvin Olasky
‘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.’ – Eric Clapton
‘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.’ – Gray 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.’ – Gray Davis
‘I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.’ – William Joyce
‘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.’ – Tony Curtis
‘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.’ – Harold Ramis
‘I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.’ – Richard Harding Davis
‘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.’ – Ann Beattie
‘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.’ – Harry Seidler
‘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.’ – L. Neil Smith
‘7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin’ in the summer time.’ – Obie Trice
‘I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man’s paying for it, I’d have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, ‘Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.” – Chris Matthews
‘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.’ – Ed O’Neill
‘The heroes of our youth grow old – ‘the boys of summer in their ruin’, in Dylan Thomas’s verse – yet we seem the same.’ – John Thorn
‘The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.’ – Matthew Sweet
‘I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.’ – Angie Martinez
‘We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.’ – Robbie Keane
‘This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.’ – Charisma Carpenter
‘During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.’ – Davy Jones
‘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.’ – Patricia Heaton
‘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.’ – Laura Innes
‘WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.’ – Dixie Dean
‘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.’ – Lawrence R. Klein
‘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.’ – Ajay Naidu
‘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.’ – David F. Houston
‘I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person’s hand.’ – Gilbert White
‘Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.’ – Gilbert White
‘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.’ – David R. Ellis
‘I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life’s work.’ – 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.’ – Jim Evans
‘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.’ – Jim Evans
‘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.’ – Marc Davis
‘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
‘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.’ – Tom Berenger
‘My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is – well, our daughter and our son – is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they’re home in the summer, although they have jobs.’ – Erika Slezak
‘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.’ – Joanne Woodward
‘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.’ – William Bligh
‘I did two or three plays every summer.’ – Dabney Coleman
‘I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.’ – Maria Mitchell
‘Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I’m not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else’s job. I just can’t think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!’ – Garth Brooks
‘My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.’ – Daniel Nathans
‘In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you’d go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you’d learn to sing a lot of songs.’ – Michael Tilson Thomas
‘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.’ – Sue Grafton
‘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.’ – Angela Merkel
‘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.’ – Edward Everett
‘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.’ – Sarah Zettel
‘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.’ – Buffalo Bill
‘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
‘Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.’ – John Sebastian
‘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
‘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.’ – Evan Parker
‘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.’ – Henry Kravis
‘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.’ – Martin Feldstein
‘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.’ – Thomas Haden Church
‘In the summer of ’84, you just couldn’t escape the Born in the USA record.’ – Henry Rollins
‘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.’ – Bruce McCulloch
‘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.’ – Rick Renzi
‘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.’ – Marla Sokoloff
‘Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we’re gonna start another season.’ – Jerry Orbach
‘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.’ – Gianni Versace
‘Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.’ – James Cronin
‘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.’ – Harry Mathews
‘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.’ – Robert Quine
‘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.’ – Merle Haggard
‘This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven’t known myself so relaxed in years.’ – Kylie Minogue
‘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.’ – Ryan Sheckler
‘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.’ – Gary Miller
‘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.’ – Arto Lindsay
‘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.’ – Rosamund Pike
‘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.’ – Keith Thibodeaux
‘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.’ – David Neeleman
‘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!’ – Danielle Steel
‘For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.’ – Claudia Schiffer
‘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.’ – 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.’ – Peter Jurasik
‘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.’ – Robert MacNeil
‘I started out in summer stock, and that’s really what I prefer.’ – Andrea Martin
‘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.’ – David Lloyd
‘Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.’ – Georg Brandes
‘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.’ – Irvine Welsh
‘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.’ – Jeremy Bulloch
‘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.’ – Orlando Bloom
‘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.’ – Anthea Turner
‘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.’ – Judy Biggert
‘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.’ – Diana Ross
‘Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.’ – Larry King
‘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.’ – Jeff Foxworthy
‘I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.’ – David Ginola
‘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.’ – John Pople
‘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.’ – Katie Holmes
‘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.’ – Lech Walesa
‘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.’ – Jan de Bont
‘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.’ – Genevieve Gorder
‘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.’ – George Andrew Olah
‘Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.’ – Elton Gallegly
‘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.’ – Mark-Paul Gosselaar
‘Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.’ – Robert T. Bakker
‘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.’ – William H. Macy
‘At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.’ – Summer Sanders
‘If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.’ – Ben Stein
‘I thank Heaven every summer’s day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.’ – Donald G. Mitchell
‘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.’ – Robert Benchley
‘I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.’ – Shaun Alexander
‘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.’ – Dag Hammarskjold
‘Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope’s. I’ve been going down there all my life, to that whole area.’ – Mike Love
‘I rarely see one of the ‘summer blockbuster’ movies. I’d like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.’ – Christopher Meloni
‘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.’ – Lizzy Caplan
‘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.’ – Joe Biden
‘I remember opening my dad’s closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just… he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.’ – Jon Hamm
‘I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don’t. I don’t summer anywhere either.’ – Christina Ricci
‘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.’ – Joe Sakic
‘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.’ – John Stamos
‘I’m a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I’ve got a garden. I’m very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.’ – Elisha Cuthbert
‘The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.’ – Eric Liu
‘I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays – even though they were at the YMCA – but it was something I always wanted to do.’ – Chloe Sevigny
‘Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity’s sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans – people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.’ – Chelsea Clinton
‘I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.’ – Jorge Garcia
‘We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season.’ – Kim Clijsters
‘Obviously I’m very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open.’ – Kim Clijsters
‘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.’ – Martha Plimpton
‘Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it’s about to pay off. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see this summer.’ – Ryan Lochte
‘I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.’ – Natalie Coughlin
‘I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn’t for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.’ – Terrell Davis
‘I’d love to compete in the Summer Olympics.’ – Shaun White
‘In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.’ – Vanessa Mae
‘In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It’s been 15 years since I’ve been getting married every year.’ – Vanessa Paradis
‘The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.’ – Giada De Laurentiis
‘Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I’ve been available for, how many goals I’ve scored, how I’ve contributed. But that’s what the summer’s for. For now, you just look to the next one.’ – Michael Owen
‘During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it’s squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.’ – Michelle Malkin
‘In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.’ – Ina Garten
‘I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.’ – Audrey Tautou
‘My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company’s Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.’ – Didi Conn
‘The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a ‘Hippy Summer’ or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what’s being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or ‘normal’ cultural climate, are never going to look like that.’ – Chris Robinson
‘I am attached to the west coast of Scotland – it’s gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.’ – Clive Anderson
”RoboCop’ was maybe the best summer of my entire life.’ – Miguel Ferrer
‘You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.’ – Bret Michaels
‘I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn’t work in the summer though. I don’t have the right clothes.’ – Alexei Sayle
‘It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them… More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show… I had like five surgeries.’ – Phillip Phillips
‘From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.’ – Allen West
‘I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.’ – Cat Cora
‘My American home is L.A., which is the ultimate city for 365 days of summer.’ – Curtis Stone
‘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
‘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.’ – Bryn Terfel
‘My treatment ended in March/April of ’08. It wasn’t until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn’t depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.’ – Robin Roberts
‘My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.’ – Andrew Cuomo
‘I am a summer person.’ – Elin Hilderbrand
‘We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.’ – Gail Devers
‘I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.’ – Geoff Hoon
‘Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.’ – Henry Rollins
‘One of my school friends’ parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.’ – Jack Nicholson
‘I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy’s garden.’ – Nikki Giovanni
‘America may be the best country in the world, but that’s kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.’ – Dennis Miller
‘My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing – just in different weights – light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.’ – Domenico Dolce
‘I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon’s re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.’ – Ed Rollins
‘On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it’s differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.’ – Michael Cunningham
‘For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I’d come home and go to church and everybody would say, ‘Oh, my God. Demetri, you’re working at the White House.” – Demetri Martin
‘When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.’ – Hugh Hefner
‘I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.’ – Heather Mills
‘Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family’s cottage in Maine. It’s on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.’ – Hope Davis
‘It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit – summer stock – but couldn’t afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.’ – William Shatner
‘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.’ – Richard D. Zanuck
‘I can’t believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.’ – Kenny Chesney
‘I hate the summer.’ – Anne Lamott
‘Summer nearly does me in every year. It’s too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.’ – Anne Lamott
‘I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.’ – Eddie Redmayne
‘Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.’ – Ang Lee
‘I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I’m a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I’ll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, ‘That’s ugly.” – Miranda Lambert
‘I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy.’ – Hugh Jackman
‘It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that’s nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.’ – Christopher Reeve
‘I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.’ – Christopher Reeve
‘My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s.’ – John Cusack
‘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.’ – Leslie Mann
‘It’s the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.’ – Arthur Smith
‘In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I’ll add a nice scarf, maybe a hat, some cool sunglasses. It’s all about the accessories.’ – Alessandra Ambrosio
‘I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad’s sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.’ – Andy Serkis
‘During summer or charity games I’ll wear my bright orange or green or turquoise ones and guys are always like, ‘Why are your shoes so bright?” – James Harden
‘Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.’ – James Harden
‘Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.’ – Ron Fournier
‘I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it’s not normal, but I just don’t care. I live once.’ – Liz Phair
‘For some reason I only crave fruit when I’m in a tropical place – if it’s really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don’t crave it.’ – Carmen Electra
‘The success of ‘Scrubs’ allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.’ – Zach Braff
‘I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn’t really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.’ – Henry Thomas
‘Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress for success and nail job interviews. But most of all, they need mentorship, guidance, and inspiration.’ – Hilda Solis
‘Hey, I’m just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I’ve always had that ability to move on to the next thing.’ – Doug Flutie
‘I have always loved the Summer Olympics.’ – Katharine McPhee
‘I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.’ – Magnus Carlsen
‘I have a really basic uniform: in winter, black tights and any old dress that I can throw on. In summer, high-waisted jeans and this shirt, or that shirt, and a cashmere cardigan just in case.’ – Claudia Schiffer
‘I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven’t seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross ’cause she’s an icon. I’m salivating to do that.’ – Taraji P. Henson
‘There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party – let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.’ – Pippa Middleton
‘I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!’ – Busy Philipps
‘I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I’d come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann’s Pop’Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over ‘All My Children’ and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.’ – Andy Cohen
‘I think gardens are fantastic, and I’d love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There’s something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.’ – Ed Westwick
”Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,’ the Whitney Museum’s 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it’ll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.’ – Jerry Saltz
‘It’s been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.’ – Idina Menzel
‘I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don’t tan.’ – Diablo Cody
‘As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.’ – Diablo Cody
‘Movies don’t sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you’ve got a two- or three-week shelf life so you need to have that awareness right off the bat. And in order to make a lot of people know about your movie, you need to be out there banging the drum and showing your stuff.’ – Joseph Kosinski
‘I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.’ – Carlos Pena, Jr.
‘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.’ – Rian Johnson
‘I love movies like ‘500 Days of Summer’ and ‘Juno.’ Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.’ – Lucy Hale
‘For me, my favorite trends of summer are lots of color, wedges, rompers and bright lipstick.’ – Janel Parrish
‘In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.’ – William Mapother
‘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?’ – Jackson Rathbone
‘Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we’d call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It’s very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.’ – Elizabeth Kostova
‘I love summer, but my legs are so pale I can never wear shorts or a bikini.’ – Emma Roberts
‘The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.’ – Lauren Groff
‘When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.’ – Zoe Kazan
‘When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?’ – Jane Smiley
‘My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.’ – Britt Ekland
‘For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we’d start in St Tropez. I’d collect my bikinis from my home there and then we’d go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.’ – Ivana Trump
‘Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.’ – Joshua Foer
‘I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.’ – Sue Monk Kidd
‘Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she’d retired the day after she recorded ‘I Feel Love’ in 1977.’ – Rob Sheffield
‘At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure – after ‘Bad Girls,’ nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with ‘Off The Wall.” – Rob Sheffield
‘God bless America – what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after ‘Meatballs III: Summer Job?’ His reign as Dr. McDreamy on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ is proof that there’s nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.’ – Rob Sheffield
‘You know, I’m playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room… About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that’s a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I’ve dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.’ – Billy Gardell
‘I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.’ – David Boies
‘I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.’ – Julie Burchill
‘I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.’ – Graham Swift
‘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.’ – Susan Sullivan
‘I rode all around Hollywood listening to Donna Summer, looking out the window – all by myself – just going, ‘I’m number one!’ It’s a pretty extraordinary feeling.’ – Jimmy Webb
‘There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.’ – Jon Landau
‘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.’ – Nate Mendel
‘My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.’ – Oleg Deripaska
‘My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.’ – Ernesto Bertarelli
‘September is my favourite month, particularly in Cornwall. I felt, even as a child, that if you get a wonderful day in September, you think: ‘This could be one of the last, the summer is nearly over.’ If you get a wonderful day in May, you think: ‘So what, there’s more coming.” – Tim Rice
‘I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.’ – Jack McBrayer
‘I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.’ – Philippa Gregory
‘The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it’s predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.’ – Bill Kurtis
‘It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened – the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign – and I don’t think this was an accident – the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.’ – Michael Hayden
‘I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten… for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable.’ – John C. McGinley
‘Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, ‘Yeah!” – Paul Scheer
‘People don’t want to give up their SUVs. They don’t want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.’ – Ed Begley, Jr.
‘I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.’ – Maria Semple
‘My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.’ – Becca Fitzpatrick
‘In case you haven’t heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said ‘best summer ever’ is with a good ol’ disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there’s no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.’ – Candice Accola
‘The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of… environmental disasters that might be there.’ – Aleqa Hammond
‘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.’ – Nikki DeLoach
‘I would come, many years later, to understand why ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is considered ‘an important novel’, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.’ – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘I loved every minute of my childhood – sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand… Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.’ – Jennifer Egan
‘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.’ – Nicholas D’Agosto
‘This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it’s going to ruin their chances of getting into college.’ – Darell Hammond
‘As parents, we need to send our kids back to ‘old-fashioned’ outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.’ – Darell Hammond
‘Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.’ – Darell Hammond
‘Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs – they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.’ – Darell Hammond
‘As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation’s schools?’ – Darell Hammond
‘Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of ‘Scum.’ All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.’ – Ray Winstone
‘I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer.’ – Pauly D
‘When I’m not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can – in the summer, you usually find me in the water.’ – Dustin Clare
‘As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn’t brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.’ – Glenn Turner
‘We have got this Damocles’ sword of Standard and Poor’s hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain’s credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.’ – Philip Hammond
‘There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer’s day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.’ – Peter Mayle
‘Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?’ – Tom Hodgkinson
‘Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.’ – Tom Hodgkinson
‘I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It’s the last gasp of really being a teen.’ – Sarah Dessen
‘Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.’ – Gary Zukav
‘We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.’ – Gary Zukav
‘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.’ – Kara Lindsay
‘I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.’ – David Ulevitch
‘In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.’ – Matthew Scully
‘I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.’ – Stan Musial
‘I’m all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.’ – Kat Graham
‘The summer I finished my first novel ‘Ghana Must Go,’ I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.’ – Taiye Selasi
‘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.’ – Glen Mazzara
‘The idea of ‘ferie,’ or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It’s a time to relax, reflect and recharge.’ – Frida Giannini
‘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.’ – Joseph O’Neill
‘When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.’ – Maj Sjowall
‘For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.’ – Paul Engle
‘I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ every summer.’ – Dree Hemingway
‘When I was 17, I studied at RADA in London for the summer. I wanted to live abroad and to pursue drama, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity. I thought I may as well throw myself in at the deep end. My first big role is in ‘Starlet.” – Dree Hemingway
‘I didn’t like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child’s head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.’ – Daniel Handler
‘I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don’t have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.’ – Rachel Johnson
‘When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it’s always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.’ – Andre Leon Talley
‘The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.’ – Eli Broad
‘Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.’ – Zooey Deschanel
‘You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.’ – Max Landis
‘There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.’ – Roger Ebert
‘Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?’ – Kevin Plank
‘Everybody should have the right to wear flip-flops in summer.’ – Sarah Carter
‘The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.’ – Johnny Weir
‘Why can’t the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?’ – Madeleine M. Kunin
‘I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it’s to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It’s there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter.’ – Peter Doig
‘A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn’t really necessary to experience the music.’ – Maya Beiser
‘I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.’ – Dan Aykroyd
‘As much as I’d like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that’s who comes to see me.’ – Steve Earle
‘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.’ – Brene Brown
‘I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn’t wait to get back to Ardmore.’ – Olivia Wilde
‘I tell people ‘America’s Got Talent’ is the best summer job you could have – you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that’s what I’d be doing if I was watching this show at home!’ – Nick Cannon
‘My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.’ – Emily Oster
‘It’s possible to have more than one interest. I’ve been a painter and did summer stock.’ – Arne Glimcher
‘When I’m drawing, I’m drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can’t draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I’m working. I draw according to the place.’ – Christian Louboutin
‘The system decides you can’t run schools in the summer.’ – Geoffrey Canada
‘I’m a contract computer scientist by trade, but I’m the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It’s a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.’ – Gever Tulley
‘I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz
‘Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don’t want wrinkles, but it’s skin cancer I truly fear.’ – Janine di Giovanni
‘Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.’ – Luis von Ahn
‘The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.’ – Gina McKee
‘My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after ‘Star Wars’ opened in ’77. In ’78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch ‘Star Wars Episode IV’ all summer long and get paid with movie passes.’ – Dee Bradley Baker
‘In Michigan, if you want to act, it’s local theater, it’s high school theater and it’s going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.’ – James Wolk
‘We’re all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn’t let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn’t let us watch ‘The Flintstones’ if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of ‘The Honeymooners’. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old ‘Honeymooners’.’ – Tina Fey
”The Wine of Summer’ is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.’ – Kelsey Chow
‘I absolutely love Ireland. It’s one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and I have strong ties here. Both my grandmothers are from Ireland, and I have spent every summer in Bantry since my father, who is an artist, had the romantic idea 20 years ago to buy an old farmhouse on the west coast and renovate it.’ – Emily Ratajkowski
‘I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.’ – Daniel Bruhl
‘I’m the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, ‘What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?” – Dwyane Wade
‘I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.’ – T. J. Miller
‘I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn’t doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn’t coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.’ – Kandyse McClure
‘Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.’ – Paul Stamets
‘I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since ’96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That’s a pretty good resume.’ – John Cena
‘I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases – fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.’ – Ty Simpkins
‘One of the things that I’d like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you know, a rep season for a summer where you did two or three Shakespeares, and you’d do a couple of either new plays or classic plays, and you did a different one almost every night.’ – Thomas Gibson
‘Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would’ve kept playing, except I realized that girls don’t watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.’ – Thomas Gibson
‘As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children’s library until I finished the children’s library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.’ – Neil Gaiman
‘I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be ‘A Game of Thrones’.’ – George R. R. Martin
‘When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, ‘Where did you summer and winter growing up?’ I would usually say, ‘As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.” – Artie Lange
‘When you’re singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that’s what people want.’ – Anna Netrebko
‘When I was younger, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta’s daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.’ – Meaghan Rath
‘It’s that way all the way down the line. I’ve got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.’ – Bruce Sutter
‘As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.’ – Sarah Silverman
‘People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.’ – Michael Moore
‘Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer – it’s like 125 degrees – so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat.’ – Emma Stone
‘When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it’s because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life – like summer itself.’ – Tom Robbins
‘Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the ‘Phineas and Ferb’ soundtrack, ‘Summer (Where Do We Begin?).’ When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.’ – Christopher Gorham
‘Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.’ – Alex Trebek
‘I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they’re playing, and they’re teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can’t wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.’ – Jessica Valenti
‘Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.’ – Regina Brett
‘Sometimes in the heart of the summer, I look at people with their faces shaved and think it’d be nice, but once you get used to it, it’s not as hot. Most guys say it gets itchy, but once you grow it out into a big man beard, the itching is gone.’ – Willie Robertson
‘I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn’t pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn’t the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer.’ – Claire Danes
‘The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.’ – Enya
‘I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.’ – Dan Brown
‘For a long time, I’d been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.’ – Bill Bryson
‘I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did – all of these peoples’ lives went on.’ – Bill Bryson
‘I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.’ – William Gibson
”Red Hook Summer’ is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.’ – Spike Lee
‘I didn’t dream about being a director. I didn’t know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.’ – Spike Lee
‘My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family’s had forever, and it’s on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating.’ – Jimmy Fallon
‘Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, ‘Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn’t yet arrived – so enjoy this halfway point!” – Rachel Nichols
‘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
‘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.’ – Tyra Banks
‘On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn’t one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.’ – Diane Ackerman
‘Since becoming a pop star, I’ve experimented a lot more. I’ve gotten more creative with what I wear. My stylist is a bit more adventurous than I would normally be, but it’s really worked, and the colours really work together. I think everyone should be a bit more confident: if it’s a summer’s day, wear some bright colours.’ – Olly Murs
‘All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes.’ – Isabel Allende
‘I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt’s ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that’s where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears.’ – Temple Grandin
‘I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a ‘C.L.E. Moore Instructor.’ I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.
‘There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It’s still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn’t get it.’ – Noah Baumbach
‘Personally, I’m a simple dresser. I usually buy my own clothes. Jeans, T-shirts, summer dresses and track pants. Whenever I get the time or see a shop that catches my fancy, I buy something.’ – Katrina Kaif
‘My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We’d share stories of making out with boys, but we never did, so we made it all up. My real first kiss was at a friend’s house when I was in junior high. He was such a good kisser, and we’re still close friends!’ – Kourtney Kardashian
‘I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom’s side for not being black enough. And then I’d spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was ‘that black girl.” – Lauren London
‘Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer’s eve.’ – Kat Edmonson
‘Not only does the summer bring warm weather and tons of summer activities, but it also yields a fresh crop of increasingly useful avocados!’ – Marcus Samuelsson
‘I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.’ – Toks Olagundoye
‘I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We’d go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea.’ – Philip Treacy
‘My mother’s sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.’ – Matisyahu
‘I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic.’ – Alex Ebert
‘My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn’t have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer.’ – Ryan Holmes
‘Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.’ – Ryan Holmes
‘When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting.’ – Robert Wilson
‘To be honest, after all the crap that happened with ‘Summer Heights High,’ I was like, ‘I’m not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can’t handle the blame.” – Chris Lilley
‘I was sure ‘Summer Heights High’ would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.’ – Chris Lilley
‘During the Olympics they’re really strict about what you’re allowed to wear. You get a lot of clothes, but everything is pre-ordered. We had a fitting over the summer. You’re not allowed to wear your own clothes. No logos, nothing. You get fined if you wear something you’re not supposed to wear.’ – Henrik Lundqvist
‘Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don’t wear sandals. With shorts, it’s wing tips and tennis socks.’ – Thom Browne
‘Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown.’ – Twiggy
‘I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to Chapel Hill for summer school and just loved it.’ – Lee Smith
‘My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique.’ – Aerin Lauder
‘The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.’ – Julia Mancuso
‘When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of ‘The Other Side of Midnight’ by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.’ – Lauren DeStefano
‘I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, ‘Blister In The Sun.” – Nick Robinson
‘One way in which ‘Friends’ did resemble ‘Seinfeld’ is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That’s when the main title song, ‘I’ll Be There for You’, by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.’ – Warren Littlefield
‘I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.’ – Henry Rollins
‘In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.’ – Henry Rollins
‘Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.’ – P. J. O’Rourke
‘I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn’t a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.’ – Sanjeev Bhaskar
‘On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems ‘Native Guard.’ I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.’ – Natasha Trethewey
‘For city dwellers like me who don’t get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out – all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer’s cinematic escapes is ‘La Collectionneuse.” – Jake Paltrow
‘I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.’ – Chadwick Boseman
‘In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since.’ – Henry Rollins
‘August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.’ – Henry Rollins
‘I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!’ – Marissa Jaret Winokur
‘As I’ve said a million times, I’m obsessed with Liya Kebede’s LemLem line. The pieces, made by artisans in her native Ethiopia, are perfect for summer! I’m also a big fan of jewelry line Lulu Frost. Designer Lisa Salzer and I have been friends forever, and I love how she incorporates vintage pieces into her jewelry.’ – Amanda Hearst
‘I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.’ – Nick Goepper
‘The real preparation for races is done in the off-season. I put in the hard work during the summer and fall, and I’m always working on technique so that when the actual races come around I’m ready to go.’ – Shani Davis
‘The first outbreak of America’s 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation’s airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.’ – Brendan I. Koerner
‘In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued, would not only plug the revenue gap; it would also help to re-establish value in their news product.’ – Lionel Barber
‘During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.’ – Chellie Pingree
‘From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community theater, did shows at Greenbrier, interned at the Cleveland Play House for a summer, took voice lessons, took ballet lessons. I did everything that Cleveland allowed me to do – everything that was available to me.’ – Reggie Lee
‘I was 13 – 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.’ – Mahesh Babu
‘I would go on summer vacations visiting family all over the world.’ – Joakim Noah
‘Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.’ – Bella Thorne
‘I think there’s something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I’m also really into layering during the winter!’ – Debby Ryan
‘In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married – we became an interracial couple.’ – Alice Walker
‘I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.’ – Stephen Hawking
‘Our Congress should stay in session all summer – camp out in D.C., and turn off the AC. Put on their stuffiest powdered wigs and sweat it out, until they give in and put their John Hancocks (and their Nancy Pelosis and their John Boehners) on at least one meaningful law that no one wants to repeal.’ – Kevin Bleyer
‘If summer racing didn’t exist, I could go on holiday, yes, because nobody else would then be riding winners; but as long it goes ahead, I’ll do it for the reason that I want to ride more winners than anyone else.’ – Tony McCoy
‘I suppose I’m happy when I know I’ve given a horse a good ride, no matter where it is. I like playing golf in the summer; I’m happy when I hit a good shot, and I enjoy watching Arsenal playing beautiful football, but overall I can’t believe you can be happy when you’re not winning. I honestly can’t accept that.’ – Tony McCoy
‘Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.’ – Andrew Scott
‘My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men’s urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.’ – Aaron Ruell
‘I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.’ – Tye Sheridan
‘The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.’ – Dominique Moceanu
‘From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.’ – Julia Glass
‘Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.’ – Tracy McMillan
‘I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when – for the first time in the history of planet Earth – America’s share of auto production dropped below 50 percent.’ – Seth Shostak
‘I’m not a summertime guy. The only time I really enjoy the summer is touring and performing because there is nothing else for me to do at home. It’s too hot, and you can’t farm. You can’t hunt.’ – Blake Shelton
‘I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say ‘the Ukraine’ until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good friends with, he said, ‘Do you say I’m going back to the Texas,’ and I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘We don’t say we’re going back to the Ukraine, either.” – Louie Gohmert
‘My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment.’ – Margaret Beckett
‘I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late ’70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.’ – Taylor Hawkins
‘During the summer of 1963 between my junior and senior years, I began a research project on hypothermia in the Department of Surgery with Sidney Wolfson. I quickly became fascinated by the project and continued working on it throughout my senior year.’ – Stanley B. Prusiner
‘There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.’ – Russell Smith
‘I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.’ – Topher Grace
‘There’s a lot of people around Alaska now who are actually running the place who claim to just have gone there for the summer once 30 years ago. And that seems to be what happens.’ – Tom Bodett
‘I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.’ – Bob Seger
‘Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim ‘victory’ by the summer of 2011 or so.’ – Thomas P.M. Barnett
‘I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with my parents and us six kids.’ – Michael Strahan
‘I started working out with my father the summer I was 13, which was incredible for our relationship. Those were my summers: working out with my dad, hanging out with my brothers, riding my bike. Pretty simple.’ – Michael Strahan
‘My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp.’ – Clark Johnson
‘My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.’ – David Henry Hwang
‘In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.’ – Ben Elliot
‘Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.’ – Bill Dedman
‘Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.’ – Bill Dedman
‘My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.’ – Nick Ferguson
‘When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.’ – Anna Popplewell
‘When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.’ – Jill Lepore
‘I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I’ll tell you what.’ – Kevin Love
‘I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.’ – Zack Wheat
‘In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.’ – John Eisenhower
‘For me, summer hasn’t really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers’ markets.’ – Jose Andres
‘Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.’ – Carl Hagelin
‘I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I’m not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.’ – Carl Hagelin
‘Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I’m incredibly happy with the results. ‘Everything To Me’ is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can’t wait for people to hear it!’ – Shane Filan
‘Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.’ – Jackie Evancho
”Privileged,’ without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on ‘Gossip Girl’ and spend the summer in a city that I’ve absolutely fallen in love with.’ – Joanna Garcia
‘My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.’ – Kate Micucci
‘I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school… you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.’ – Spencer Grammer
‘Music videos may seem old hat now, but let me tell you, in the summer of 1981, MTV was indubitably the coolest thing ever invented. And the people who were in the videos… coolest people ever. No question.’ – Julia Quinn
‘In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well… nothing.’ – Phoebe Tonkin
‘I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of ‘Tally’s Folly’ that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for ‘Harvey’ at the end of the summer, and I was in a play every semester after that.’ – Kevin Rahm
”Summer Heights High’ is one of my favourite shows of all time. I’m obsessed. I re-watch it all the time.’ – Erin Heatherton
‘Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators’ ability to supply power.’ – Alex Berenson
‘One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, ‘6,’ and he said, ‘3.’ I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.’ – Jim Rash
‘The most emotionally connected I’ve ever been to a character is Natsuki in ‘Summer Wars.” – Brina Palencia
‘I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I’d wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But ‘Superbad’ kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.’ – Christopher Mintz-Plasse
‘Fall is my favorite my time of the year. I love it. I’ll try and make it back to Vancouver a bunch. I love going back home for that. Everything turns orange. You start to get out of summer, start making your way into the winter, everyone is wearing jackets. Vancouver lights up in the fall, so I definitely go back there for a bit.’ – Jean-Luc Bilodeau
‘What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn’t matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn’t have learned any other way.’ – Nancy Gibbs
‘Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there’s no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.’ – Nancy Gibbs
‘A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don’t offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.’ – Nancy Gibbs
‘Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you’d never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper – something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season – and so memories stir and startle.’ – Nancy Gibbs
‘A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.’ – C. V. Raman
‘My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me.’ – Julianne Moore
‘Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you’re a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.’ – Maksim Chmerkovskiy
‘Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it’s not even summer.’ – Ryan Hansen
‘I’ve been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I’m a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it’s just – as you’re trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.’ – Ike Barinholtz
‘I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.’ – Allen Covert
‘I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.’ – Ted Danson
‘I went to see a children’s matinee at the movie theatre one summer, but at some point they had changed to the grown up movie in the late afternoon, and I ended up seeing this movie called ‘The Bad Seed.’ It just terrified me.’ – Robert Englund
‘When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.’ – Patti Davis
‘I grew up in St. Louis, and I don’t know if you’ve ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the temperature can be over 100 degrees and the humidity can be 100 percent.’ – Scott Bakula
‘Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother’s old ones.’ – Dorothy Hamill
‘I’ve always played my best golf in the summer.’ – Keegan Bradley
‘Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.’ – Geoffrey Zakarian
‘I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It’s really small; it’s kind of a little summer beach town.’ – Liam Hemsworth
‘When I was very young – around the age of nine – my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.’ – Christopher Lee
‘Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.’ – Jane Birkin
‘In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state’s failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.’ – Al Sharpton
‘I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it’s a little less. I like the kind of melodies I did with Donna Summer, or ‘Flashdance,’ where you have a verse, a chorus – a song setup.’ – Giorgio Moroder
‘The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn’t spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed.’ – Deval Patrick
‘My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing – just in different weights – light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. And jeans.’ – Domenico Dolce
‘Were it my choice, I would not vote for Russia to hold the Winter Olympics or the Summer Olympics. But it’s not my choice.’ – Mitt Romney
‘Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.’ – Buzz Aldrin
‘I get burnt in the sun, so there’s no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.’ – Brian O’Driscoll
‘As the summer moves on, there are Saturday nights when I come home and find friends I haven’t even been out with sitting up in the hot tub.’ – Brian O’Driscoll
‘Summer in Seattle allows me to indulge in some of the region’s top culinary delights – I’m talking about wild king salmon and fresh, ripe Washington stone fruits and berries like cherries, peaches, plums, and blueberries.’ – Tom Douglas
‘Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage.’ – Tom Douglas
‘I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.’ – David Liss
‘Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.’ – Marcia Gay Harden
‘Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to ‘War and Peace’ – well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.’ – Karen Traviss
‘At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer.’ – Michelle Magorian
‘We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don’t know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.’ – Cheryl Ladd
‘Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can’t understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it.’ – Susan Estrich
‘Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.’ – Melville Fuller
‘George McGovern – and I campaigned very hard for his election – was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.’ – Karen DeCrow
‘I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.’ – Ellen Gilchrist
‘In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.’ – Karl Ferdinand Braun
‘In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.’ – Edward P. Jones
‘I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major.’ – Wes Brown
‘My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.’ – Harold E. Varmus
‘In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food – for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.’ – Barbara Mandrell
‘I don’t want people buying my records for this summer’s hit. I want people buying them because they’re interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.’ – Al Jourgensen
‘Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle – my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.’ – Bjorn Ulvaeus
‘Wild horses couldn’t drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago.’ – Bjorn Ulvaeus
‘When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.’ – Max von Sydow
‘I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made ‘Freestylin’ – Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman.’ – Spike Jonze
‘Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.’ – Shawn Amos
‘I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.’ – Douglas Leone
‘Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don’t have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It’s like if you’re going to France for the summer, you’re going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they’re going, or if they’re going anywhere.’ – Mary Roach
‘When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don’t recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.’ – Mary Roach
‘If my daughter’s going to go out in the winter with summer clothes, I’m gonna question it. And at some point, I assume, if the conversation goes on long enough, if I can convince her, she will put on some warm clothes. And I think that sort of exchange is pretty valid.’ – Susanne Bier
‘I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I’d pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I’ve had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.’ – Colin Angle
‘In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of ‘True Detective’ that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart’s voices.’ – Nic Pizzolatto
‘In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for ‘True Detective’ was one of them.’ – Nic Pizzolatto
‘I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.’ – Siri Hustvedt
‘I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in ‘The Summer without Men.’ I also write essays about visual art.’ – Siri Hustvedt
‘We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own.’ – Kiki Dee
‘My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn’t for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn’t end up doing that either.’ – Safra A. Catz
‘Perhaps summer’s ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes – extravagant treats that aren’t as calorie-laden when we’re wearing flip flops.’ – Sarah MacLean
‘Alas, summer sun can’t last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.’ – Sarah MacLean
‘I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I’m such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.’ – Becky G
‘People ask, ‘Why is it called 5 Seconds of Summer when there’s four of you?” – Ashton Irwin
‘My grandma was really sick when I was working on ‘Sin Nombre’ and eventually died that summer when we were finishing the film. But I was able to bring an unfinished version of the film for her to watch.’ – Cary Fukunaga
‘I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.’ – Simon McBurney
‘In the summer of 2012 – and we do as we do when we get together to brainstorm an idea – we were both probably eating grilled cheese and watching ‘Oprah’s Favorite Things,’ so it will never end, and we both brought a few things to the table of what we wanted our next project to be. And Jessica said, ‘What if we raised a baby together?” – Lennon Parham
‘In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers’ room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.’ – Lennon Parham
‘One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.’ – Chen Guangbiao
‘I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We’d take a picnic, and I’d spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn’t get me out of there.’ – Olga Kurylenko
‘Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter’s provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden… the island abounds in milk and honey.’ – Venerable Bede
‘We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the ‘Simpsons.’ I fought with my younger brother over Legos.’ – Daniel Mallory Ortberg
‘After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that ‘Same Love’ allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.’ – Mary Lambert
‘Shake Shack started off as a summer hot dog cart in Madison Square Park. It was not meant to be a company – it was completely accidental. It started off as an expression of community building.’ – Danny Meyer
‘My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in ‘Gidget,’ ‘Imitation of Life’ and ‘A Summer Place.’ After that, I was a star. It was fun.’ – Sandra Dee
‘The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.’ – Ben Bernanke
‘As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.’ – Mary Quant
‘With fashion, you go deep into a shoot for one day, but a movie lasts so much longer. It’s literally like going to summer camp.’ – Suki Waterhouse
‘I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it’s always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.’ – T. J. Miller
‘When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.’ – Constance Wu
‘My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.’ – Maria Semple
‘The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.’ – Douglas Brinkley
‘I think summer has become a venue for TV like it hasn’t been in years past, especially on Sunday nights. I know that when I’m winding down at the end of the weekend, just a really great TV show or movie is exactly what the doctor ordered.’ – Anna Wood
‘Every summer my father gave us this incredible vacation, in the Philippines, Thailand, Europe – wherever.’ – Marie-Chantal Claire
‘I think people get excited about summer wardrobes and what they will wear on holiday, and people have an opportunity to wear things that they don’t normally wear when they’re in the city.’ – Jade Jagger
‘When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I’d spend the summer writing a novel.’ – John Casey
‘After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest.’ – Henrik Pontoppidan
‘As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.’ – Jane Green
‘I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today’s sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.’ – Jane Green
‘Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.’ – Heinrich Boll
‘In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.’ – Tim O’Brien
‘As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach – great memories!’ – Zoe McLellan
‘I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu.’ – Linda Thompson
‘My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a – it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.’ – John Lautner
‘Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk.’ – John Burnside
‘I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.’ – Phil Klay
‘I was born in San Bernardino in summer of ’91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.’ – Lakeith Stanfield
‘The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.’ – Clive Sinclair
‘My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents – we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer – and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was… a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let’s just say.’ – Warren Spector
‘Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.’ – David Hewson
‘Lympne Castle opens its doors to visitors during the summer only. It is privately owned, and more an interesting medieval manor than a castle.’ – David Hewson
‘Scarborough never really began to live until the summer of 1964 when the Beatles played the Futurist Theatre, and no one in the audience, least of all me, heard anything but the screaming.’ – David Hewson
‘The whole experience on ‘Grown Ups 2′ was like going to adult summer camp.’ – Halston Sage
‘I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.’ – David Souter
‘The restoration comes not only from the landscape and air, though they play their significant part, but from the people. I feel a strong need to be in New Hampshire for as much of the summer as I can manage it.’ – David Souter
‘Summer of 1967 was one of the happiest times of my life.’ – Ron Moody
‘In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he’d built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.’ – Rabih Alameddine
‘I realized that I’ve had a really rocky relationship with food – it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.’ – Kate Christensen
”Onward’ was a song I wrote in Montreux, in Switzerland, when we were there camping out for the whole winter. In the summer, Montreux is a really, really big summertime-touristy, full-of-life kind of place. In the winter, it closes down.’ – Chris Squire
‘I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.’ – Brian Kernighan
‘I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.’ – Brian Kernighan
‘In the summer, you miss the match days, but my wife gets angry, as she doesn’t see me on weekends. And football is work. I’m still working on the weekends.’ – Andrea Della Valle
‘My introduction to cell cycle control was provided by a clear, scholarly and beautiful seminar given by John Gerhart one afternoon in the summer of 1979.’ – Tim Hunt
‘Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I’d sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.’ – Kristan Higgins
‘When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad’s old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.’ – Rory Kinnear
‘One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.’ – Leon Bridges
‘Space camp was actually, like, the best summer of my life. It was amazing. But I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, and among computer science folks, Turing is this object of cult-like fascination.’ – Graham Moore
‘I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn’t know what I was doing.’ – Max von Essen
‘I’m Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.’ – Rachel Sklar
‘Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.’ – Rachel Sklar
‘When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer – I’ve never been the same.’ – Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
‘I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn’t suit me, as people ask me if I’m ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I’ve road-tested every fake tan on the market.’ – Deirdre O’Kane
‘Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent – perhaps a dozen or more each year.’ – Joseph Bruchac
‘I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.’ – Shawn Mendes
‘In ‘Summer and Smoke,’ I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.’ – Geraldine Page
‘I read ‘Jaws’ and ‘The Godfather’ back to back one summer when I was 14 and was suddenly aware of how powerful fiction could be.’ – Mark Billingham
‘In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.’ – Susanna Kearsley
‘In the summer of 2004, Malem Jan was sitting with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the second son of Jalaluddin, in their Pakistani base in the North Waziristan town of Miram Shah when they heard their names on the BBC. The Americans were offering $250,000 and $200,000, respectively, as rewards for information leading to their capture.’ – Anand Gopal
‘My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.’ – Caitlin Kittredge
‘I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I’ve returned every summer since I was born.’ – Antonya Nelson
‘I don’t want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I really want my things to last, and I want my songs and my bodies of work to resonate with people. I want to hit people – at least make a dent in them. I want to make a mark somehow.’ – Alessia Cara
‘I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.’ – Martin Chalfie
‘For the ‘Rai-kirah’ books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire’s summer capital in the mountains.’ – Carol Berg
‘In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early ’60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.’ – Tom Brokaw
‘I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.’ – Allan Gurganus
‘I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn’t have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.’ – Olivia Culpo
‘In summer 1961, Rose-Marie Egger became my wife, and her stabilizing influence has kept me on an even keel ever since. Our honeymoon trip led us to the United States where I spent two post-doc years working on thermal conductivity of type-II superconductors and metals in the group of Professor Bernie Serin at Rutgers University in New Jersey.’ – Heinrich Rohrer
‘My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.’ – Yves Chauvin
‘The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers.’ – George Vecsey
‘Every summer, I regret that I didn’t become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You’ll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.’ – Michael Dirda
‘Late summer is perfect for classic mysteries – think of Raymond Chandler’s hot Santa Anas and Agatha Christie’s Mediterranean resorts – while big ambitious works of nonfiction are best approached in September and early October, when we still feel energetic and the grass no longer needs to be cut.’ – Michael Dirda
‘Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.’ – Michael Dirda
‘In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America’s biggest band of the early ’60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation.’ – Steve Erickson
‘In the summer of 2009, in the wake of a crisis in her life, my mother moved from San Diego to San Francisco to live with my 16-year-old daughter and me. My mother was 77. I was 51. Despite a chorus of skepticism from friends – who knew about my upbringing – I was determined to do what I could to help my mother.’ – Katie Hafner
‘Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It’s become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.’ – David Bowie
‘In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there’s also been a spring festival in America.’ – Joshua Bell
‘The premise of ‘Descent’ may sound pretty straightforward: One summer morning while vacationing with her family in the foothills of the Rockies, a young girl, a high-school athlete in her senior year, goes out for a run in the higher altitudes – and disappears.’ – Alan Cheuse
‘When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn’t want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, ‘I like music. This performing thing comes easy.’ And perhaps that’s how I ended up doing what I’m doing today. Being a musician.’ – Maceo Parker
‘I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else’s radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.’ – Sheryl Lee Ralph
‘At 11, I went to Misha’s school for two summers. So when I wasn’t in that school, I was taking classes at David Howard or Robert Denver’s studios – kind of legendary places – and there was one summer where Alexander Godunov sort of took me under his wing; the memory’s a little murky, but I felt as if I was his project for those weeks.’ – Sascha Radetsky
‘There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.’ – Aslaug Magnusdottir
‘Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.’ – Tim Cope
‘If you take the time to visit rural regions, where horsemen ride by and yurts are set up in summer meadows, you will come to know that the Kazak culture lives on.’ – Tim Cope
‘I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle’s farm in West Texas in the summer.’ – Robert Woodrow Wilson
‘I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.’ – Garth Risk Hallberg
‘One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.’ – Mary Gaitskill
‘Out of all my friends, I believe I’m the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it’s important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole.’ – Eric Trump
‘It’s a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most summer movies. Pouring their wizardry into special effects and well-choreographed fights, warm-weather action films rarely challenge the viewer with grand notions or beautifully baffling imagery.’ – Richard Corliss
”Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ while not nearly the masterpiece proclaimed by many critics, is certainly a fascinating cross-species: a big-budget summer action fantasy with a sylvan, indie-film vibe, and a war movie that dares ask its audience to root for the peacemakers.’ – Richard Corliss
‘One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer.’ – Robert Kennedy
‘While the Ark Encounter will be able to accommodate 16,000 guests per day, our consultant’s research has shown that we could possibly expect more than that during the first few weeks of opening, especially during the summer time frame.’ – Ken Ham
‘I slipped through every school I went to without leaving a trace. I was in no team; I was never a prefect. I was totally mediocre – well, I probably still am – but at places like Summer Fields and Eton, it’s all about sport and doing your bit, and I always preferred to watch telly or read a book than run round a field.’ – Tom Parker Bowles
‘Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to – and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.’ – Marissa Mayer
‘For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself – it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic.’ – Adrian Tomine
‘I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper… it’s a disaster.’ – Adrian Tomine
‘That’s one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn’t begun to batter optimism.’ – Mike Barnicle
‘Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.’ – Chris Milk
‘I just typed up three, four paragraphs of an idea and dropped it in a box at the Chicago Comic Con in the summer of 2000, I guess, or 2001 – I forget. I just dropped it on a stack of a giant pile of dozens of other entries. Months later, I was thrilled to get a call from a Marvel editor while I was working my crappy day-job.’ – Jason Aaron
‘Every winter, I’m a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it’s normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.’ – Liz Goldwyn
‘In real life, I go to the North Shore with my kids for two weeks each summer, and it’s a magical place for us. I feel restored there and connected to the ancient, pre – human world in a way that no place else on Earth does for me.’ – Dean Bakopoulos
‘I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there’s no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.’ – Baltasar Kormakur
‘The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women ‘Aunties’ rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren’t entirely shut out from this system – in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government – but it’s strictly delimited.’ – Alaya Dawn Johnson
‘Very early on in the process of trying to sell ‘The Summer Prince,’ I was told, ‘Slavery seems to be very important to this society – is that on purpose?’ Well, duh.’ – Alaya Dawn Johnson
‘I moved to San Francisco to work at Apple’s Cupertino office in the summer of 2006, then stayed on remotely in a part-time job back in Austin. It was an internship with iTunes. I helped them launch new features as well as new marketing programs. I also helped program the iTunes Store every week, working on which artists and albums got featured.’ – Brit Morin
‘I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard’s summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.’ – Chelsea Handler
‘For summer, I definitely love doing stuff outside. I love beach volleyball if you’re close to something like that. It’s really fun; you can do it with a lot of friends.’ – Behati Prinsloo
‘If I’m in N.Y.C., I love walking around during the summer. It’s hot, but I love it. I enjoy seeing everyone out. New York is such a fun place. The energy is so amazing here during the summer.’ – Behati Prinsloo
‘Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can’t they get married in February?’ – Jerry Della Femina
‘My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I’d go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.’ – F. Gary Gray
‘The thing about Spike Lee… that’s a deep experience to work with someone who is that intense and knows their vision that well. The character I play in ‘Red Hook Summer’ is super country and super loud. I suppose he is some version of myself.’ – Jon Batiste
‘I’m cold in summer. I’m the coldest person ever! It’s very ironic I’m never cold in the scripts. Every time I’m shooting, if you don’t see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.’ – Carice van Houten
‘King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window’s sunshine in summer.’ – Paul Horgan
‘The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.’ – Gordon Brown
‘Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.’ – Brin-Jonathan Butler
‘In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.’ – Brin-Jonathan Butler
‘I left acting in the summer of 1988 because I was unhappy with a lot of the irresponsibility that was going on in the entertainment industry.’ – Ben Harney
‘I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!’ – John Burroughs
‘The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.’ – John Burroughs
‘England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.’ – John Burroughs
‘When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.’ – Dwayne Johnson
‘Wall Street’s biggest fight with Obama was over the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which Obama signed into law in the summer of 2010.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin
‘I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I’d worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.’ – Alexander Chee
‘In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel ‘War and Peace’ to be published as a single volume, he wrote to illustrator Mikhail Bashilov, hoping to commission drawings for the new edition of the novel, which he referred to by its original title,1805.’ – Alexander Chee
‘When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.’ – Alexander Chee
‘I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.’ – Albert Brooks
‘I remember sneaking a look at films like ‘D.C. Cab’ and ‘Doctor Detroit’ when my parents weren’t watching. ‘One Crazy Summer’ with John Cusack was one of my favorites.’ – Bobby Moynihan
”Wet Hot American Summer’ was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn’t considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what’s so wonderful about it.’ – Lake Bell
‘I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn’t have a ball at your feet.’ – Lynn Davies
‘I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.’ – J. K. Simmons
‘I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.’ – J. K. Simmons
‘It’s OK to turn down stuff that isn’t really interesting and spend the summer with my family.’ – J. K. Simmons
‘In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.’ – Jeanne Marie Laskas
‘With a franchise movie, it’s got to turn the wheels of the industry, and the studio has to have them. So you start with a release date. They say we’re going to make a new ‘Bourne’ film, and it comes out summer of X. Then they start on a script, and invariably, the script is not ready in time.’ – Paul Greengrass
‘Actors, who have no real sense of who they are or what they want, have long known that not just their gender but every aspect of their identity is on a spectrum. They can be anything they are asked to be. They aspire to a protean state, shape-shifting like high summer clouds.’ – Tom Hollander
‘In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.’ – Bertil Ohlin
‘It would be pretty special if I could win two Olympic gold medals, one at the Summer Games and one from the Winters, so I’m going to give it a real go.’ – Greg Rutherford
‘That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.’ – Stephen Curry
‘I used to listen to a lot of music in my studio – all the time. But as far as the music that interplays with my work, what I’ve done and still do is keep a lyric book and song title. The material typically comes from Eartha Kitt, Betty Davis, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston.’ – Mickalene Thomas
‘The summer I got to Pittsburgh for graduate school, I house-sat for a Ph.D. student who had a lot of books. One of the books that I found was ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov. That was eye opening. I’ve probably read it every other year since my 20s.’ – Terrance Hayes
‘The midpoint of the NBA season comes a little after the turn of the calendar year. As we settle into the new promises we’ve made to ourselves, basketball teams are busy evaluating how the promises they made to themselves over the summer are going.’ – Rowan Ricardo Phillips
‘When someone says ‘comic book movies’, what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.’ – Antony Johnston
‘I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.’ – Vincent Cassel
‘It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn’t work that way. I’m not Julia Roberts, so I have to be flexible.’ – Julia Stiles
‘I think the key to beautiful, frizz-free curls in the summer is to keep hair healthy. It’s really the strength of your hair that causes frizz, not humidity, so it’s really important to me that I keep my curls strong and moisturized to protect my hair from breakage and frizz. It definitely gives my whole summer look a new life!’ – Jillian Hervey
‘When I was in college, every summer I would work for free at a theater.’ – Jennifer Garner
‘I didn’t drink. I was never a big party girl, but I streaked. I was just in a naked frame of mind. I don’t think I was the only streaker, but I might have been the leader of the streakers! And we just all streaked, all summer.’ – Jennifer Garner
‘I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics.’ – William Godwin
‘Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.’ – Zhang Zhidong
‘While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.’ – Mahesh Babu
‘Edinburgh has a similar climate to Bergen – it’s very rainy and grey. There were a lot of days I’d sit inside in front of the computer, make music, and dream about summer – instead of the rainy reality outside.’ – Kygo
‘Programs like ACE’s Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.’ – Gina Raimondo
‘Whenever you are in a new system, and you go on summer break and come back for training camp Day 1, you don’t know how much is really going to stick.’ – Brock Osweiler
‘I didn’t just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.’ – Kiiara
‘When I started binge-watching TV, when that became a thing due to Netflix a few years ago, the first thing I watched was ‘Lost.’ It was summer break from grad school, and I watched it all in a row, like as many hours a day as I could, as though I were clocking in at a job.’ – Alexandra Kleeman
‘I didn’t sleep much in the summer of ’98. Was getting ready to move to New York City. Start a band. That was a madman’s summer. A summer of change.’ – Josh Malerman
‘I did get to hang out with my dad for a little while. I went with him to summer stock. I watched him be a real king of the world. He’d ship out as a star in summer stock. He sometimes directed the shows. I learned a lot from him – not just about acting, but about everything, how to handle a woman.’ – David Carradine
‘With rap, you go in the studio, you make music, you put the music out, then all of a sudden, you’re a star: you have a big record on the radio, and you’re on stage, and you’ve never done it before. Let’s say your first show is ‘Summer Jam,’ and you’re in front of 60,000 people, and you’ve never played an arena, ever. You’re gonna suck.’ – Jay-Z
‘I love going swimming. I spent a lot of time in North London in summer going to Hampstead Heath and swimming in the ponds there. It’s so beautiful; we’re so lucky to have that in London.’ – Felicity Jones
‘The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff’s Office in the Identification Bureau in the summer that I graduated from high school and was getting ready to go to college.’ – Janet Reno
‘A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need – and I’m fortunate to have – a fairly varied menu in that respect. I mean, I was shooting ‘Mamma Mia!’ at the same time as I was doing Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Genova’. That was a very, very bizarre summer.’ – Colin Firth
‘It’s like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the ‘New Yorker’ last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.’ – Frank McCourt
‘By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011.’ – Tom Cotton
‘For an everyday look, I use Chanel Soleil Tan de Chanel as blush, or the Summer 2013 Bronzing Palette that a makeup artist from Armani gave to me – I love Armani makeup.’ – Julia Restoin Roitfeld
‘During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.’ – J. Michael Bishop
‘The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we’d shared a bed since they were infants.’ – Lydia Millet
‘I played high school football at a hundred and eighty-five pounds and played big league baseball at a hundred and eighty-two. I’d get up to maybe 188 in the off-season because every summer I’d lose eight to ten pounds.’ – Ryne Sandberg
‘In the summer, I love to go up north to a cottage and relax by the lake, swim, go canoeing… I also love riding my bike around Toronto, going to the farmer’s market, cooking. That sounds simple, but it’s a luxury you don’t have when you’re living in hotels.’ – Sarah Gadon
‘Imprisoned by its war on terror framework, the Bush administration supported Israel in a disastrous war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.’ – Peter Bergen
‘I wrote ‘Black Deutschland’ very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.’ – Darryl Pinckney
‘Is it too late to institute a leap year and mandate that the holidays fall on regular, convenient dates – so that Id al-Fitr will come, say, in the spring and Id al-Adha in early summer?’ – Sayed Kashua
‘You can spend an entire summer in Europe, and no one will ask you what you do for a living.’ – Nia Vardalos
‘I don’t want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.’ – Mary Steenburgen
‘We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer – August in New Orleans – and my skin would turn red. They’d call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.’ – Aaron Neville
‘My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad’s factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.’ – Jo Cox
‘I prefer ‘cooling foods’ for the summer – lots of fruits like watermelons, a few strands of kesar with raisins that have been soaked overnight, and lots of coconut water. Dinner is usually dahi chawal. I am a big foodie, so depending on my cravings, I indulge – maybe pasta or risotto.’ – Alia Bhatt
‘No one can pretend to say that a fish is ever killed by heat, for many kinds of fish, in the middle of summer, and in the burning heat of the sun, do either play, as it were, on the surface of the water, or hide themselves under the leaves, weeds, or other substances at the bottom.’ – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
‘The straps that suspend a man’s trousers from his shoulders – known in the U.S. as ‘suspenders’ and in Britain as ‘braces’ – are always correct with a summer suit made of seersucker, linen, or silk.’ – Roger Stone
‘Bass Weejuns are the Cordovan black or brown penny loafers originally called Norwegian Loafers, hence their name. Worn without socks in the spring and summer, they must be kept to a high-gloss polish and should become burnished with wax over time until they have a fine patina.’ – Roger Stone
‘I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese – and it was the great summer of my childhood.’ – Laura Dern
‘People get a little bolder and more wild in summer. You’ve got things going on kabobs, things cooking on the bone. There’s something about standing over a grill or outside with the family that inspires us.’ – Guy Fieri
‘I grew up in San Diego, California, and I spent a lot of time in the summer basically living in a bathing suit, you know, get in the car and drive straight to the beach and spend the entire day in that thing, so I always approached bathing suits thinking that they are very much like outfits.’ – Emily Ratajkowski
‘When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. It was in upstate New York where we had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.’ – Nargis Fakhri
‘I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that’s what I was into.’ – Jerry Heller
‘My mentality’s always the same, whether it’s summer league, D-League, NBA, wherever it is.’ – Seth Curry
‘I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.’ – David Cassidy
‘I love feminine soft shades for summers – I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops; I think they never go out of style. As much as I’m happy with Western wear for red carpet and social dos, I also like Indian ethnic wear for special occasions.’ – Yami Gautam
‘I didn’t feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.’ – Angela Bowie
‘Summer is always best through a window.’ – Jens Lekman
‘My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.’ – Jeff Giles
‘Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio’s never heard of you.’ – Jeff Giles