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
When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking. – Constance Wu
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
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
The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths. – Gordon Brown
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
I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer. – Ellen Gilchrist
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 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
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
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
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
I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I’d be a golfer. – David Hearn
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
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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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
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
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
I’m generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America – especially with summer movies. – Elmer Bernstein