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.
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
America may be the best country in the world, but that’s kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school. – Dennis Miller
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
Every summer my father gave us this incredible vacation, in the Philippines, Thailand, Europe – wherever. – Marie-Chantal Claire
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. – Edward Moore
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
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
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
For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside. – Claudia Schiffer
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
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
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
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