Top 1200 Summer Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I'm a cold winter morning, y'all Summer's Eve.

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

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small even Superman would be nervous. And you’re reading from the Bible. It’s not like you can just make something up and improvise. “A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. Uhhh. Dear Corinthians, … How was your weekend? Sure is hot here. Uh, tell Jesus ‘Hey.’ This is the word of the Lord.

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

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

During summer, I only wear cotton and linen.

Summer of 1967 was one of the happiest times of my life.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

It’s funny how one summer can change everything.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

May summer last a hundred years.

I just like the beaches in the summer, man.

Wimbledon heralds the unofficial start of summer.

A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.

Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that.

Summer makes a silence after spring.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

I do occasionally listen to One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer.

I love muskie fishing in the summer time.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

I love Greece. It's really cool in the summer.

The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain.

Summer is always best through a window.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

Dr. Dog is good summer music.

The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

I've always played my best golf in the summer.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.

I like the beach in the summer and the mountains in the winter.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Every team makes moves during the summer.

I'm thrilled to represent Ciroc Summer Colada.

I have this ridiculous exercise regime in the summer that I do not deviate from.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

I travel all around the world every summer.

What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

When Lars Von Trier calls me, I say yes without reading the script because often the script hasn't been written yet, and if Fincher called me again, I'd say yes without reading the script, too.

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

One never gets the same summer twice.