Quotes About Summer

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.

I love boating in the summer.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.

Nothing says summer to me more than Notting Hill Carnival.

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.

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

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.

The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.

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.

Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

I live a life very similar to my characters in that I live a full-blown summer fantasy from June to September. I go to the beach and work there every day.

If a car hasn't been driven for a long time and you take it out in the summer, adding some coolant will prevent the radiator from overheating.

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

There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.

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.

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

It's funny: I did 'Step Brothers' the same summer I did 'Revolutionary Road,' which are completely different.

An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!

To me, nothing says summer like enjoying a lobster roll at my favorite spots in the Hamptons.

I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'

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.

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.

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.