Top 1200 Summer Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows.

The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

In my mind, I don't necessarily associate a summer show with lightness.

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

I was working summer jobs since I was like 11.

I did two or three plays every summer.

I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

At the beginning of every summer it is said that I'll move to Barcelona.

'RoboCop' was maybe the best summer of my entire life.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

I want to win trophies in the summer and not accolades in the winter.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me.

You just shouldn't be spending your summer watching TV.

From day one in summer league, I had a chip on my shoulder.

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.

I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also want to bring this into my characters, who also read and think. There's that great quote from Virginia Woolf - it's very simple: "...books continue each other." I think when you're a writer, you're also, hopefully, a reader, and you're bringing those earlier works into your work.

Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can see all that is happening outside. That is the equivalent of writing that is plain and unadorned. Ideally, in reading such writing, you are not even aware that you are reading. Ideas and events seem merely to flow from the mind of the writer into that of the reader without any barrier between. I hope that is what is happening when you read this book

'Heatwave' just fits the feel of summer for me.

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

You always are changed when you come back from summer camp.

As players you are always trying to do different things in the summer.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

In college, I interned for Diane Sawyer my sophomore summer.

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

Everyone knows Summer League isn't the real deal.

I've never worked during the summer. I take summers off.

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

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

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.

It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.

T'is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone.

In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.