Summer Quotes (Page 24)

Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker

Summer

"There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them."

Sleep Air Summer

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Charles Dickens Novelist

Summer

"Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond."

Beautiful Strong Summer

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

Summer

"My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier."

Thinking Summer Average

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Alexander Hume Politician

Summer

"All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day.""

Heaven Summer July

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Alice Miller Psychologist, Author

Summer

"It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path."

Children Running Summer

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Ann Wright Artist

Summer

"If you had planned to come to Crawford in the middle of the hot summer in August, no one would have come with you, if you had planned it. But spontaneously, we have now been here 11 days in the most intense heat that you can imagine of west Texas. Some of the most intense heat thunderstorms."

Summer Texas August

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

Summer

"If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him."

Love You Summer Winter

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

Summer

"Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal."

Country Summer Winter

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician

Summer

"In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals."

Art Summer Army

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Wallace Stevens Poet

Summer

"Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul."

Pain Summer Loneliness

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Washington Irving Author

Summer

"Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery."

Country Beautiful Summer

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer

Summer

"Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?"

Art Dream Summer

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer

Summer

"One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

Book Summer Garden

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William Blake Poet, Painter

Summer

"But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay."

Eye School Summer

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