Top 1200 Summer Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

I always spend my summer in Ghana. I don't go anywhere else.

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

You can spend an entire summer in Europe, and no one will ask you what you do for a living.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

People ask, 'Why is it called 5 Seconds of Summer when there's four of you?'

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day.

I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'.

Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

It would be nice to do a winter and a summer Olympics in the same cycle.

I work so hard, even Donna Summer would be jealous.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

RoboCop was maybe the best summer of my entire life.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

There's kind of a summer camp aspect of filming on location.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.

There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.

When I was in college, every summer I would work for free at a theater.

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

Summer specializes in time, slows it down almost to dream.

I'll tell anybody, I think the seacoast in the summer is as good as it gets.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.

Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Orlando... So many courses & great deals, especially in the summer!

I'm not so good during the summer, because that's when all my superpowers go away.

I know, playing in schoolyards, and summer leagues, that I can hit the three.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.

There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!

How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.

There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.

I am so glad we met at an undisclosed location over the summer.