I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
~By Blythe Danner ~
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
~By Bill Gates ~
Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
~By Bobby Flay ~
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
~By Sidney Altman ~
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.
~By Joanne Woodward ~
I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
~By Chris Matthews ~
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
~By Patrick Geddes ~
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
~By Vanessa Redgrave ~
People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.
~By David Neeleman ~
Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.
~By Robert Benchley ~
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
~By John Thorn ~
I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.
~By Bruce McCulloch ~
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~By Robert Bridges ~
For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
~By Claudia Schiffer ~
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
~By John Pomfret ~
I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.
~By Dick York ~
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?
~By Harold Ford ~
Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.
~By Vic Morrow ~
By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.
~By Laura Innes ~
It will not always be summer; build barns.
~By Hesiod ~
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~By Henry James ~
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.
~By Judy Biggert ~
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
~By Heraclitus ~
I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
~By James Agee ~
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
~By Davy Jones ~
In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.
~By Li Peng ~
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.
~By Walt Alston ~
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
~By Randy Harrison ~
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
~By John Lubbock ~
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
~By Robert Quine ~
I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
~By Richard Serra ~
You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
~By Aaron McGruder ~
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
~By Black Elk ~
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
~By Natalie Portman ~
This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
~By William Bligh ~
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
~By Henry Adams ~
Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.
~By John Sebastian ~
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
~By Bob Ney ~
We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
~By Peter Agre ~
Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical.
~By David Lloyd ~
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
~By Georg Brandes ~
I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
~By Thomas More ~
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
~By Hal Borland ~
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
~By Ray Davies ~
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
~By Raymond Duncan ~
My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.
~By Douglass North ~
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
~By William C. Bryant ~
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
~By John Donne ~
Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
~By Robert T. Bakker ~
7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.
~By Obie Trice ~
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
~By Hugo Claus ~
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.
~By Lizzy Caplan ~
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
~By Kevin Williamson ~
I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.
~By David Ginola ~
The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.
~By Gray Davis ~
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
~By Richard Blackmore ~
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
~By Henry Rollins ~
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
~By John Cheever ~
As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.
~By Rick Renzi ~
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.
~By Jim Evans ~
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
~By Edward Moore ~
The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.
~By Marc Davis ~
My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.
~By Daniel Nathans ~
On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.
~By Thomas Kinkade ~
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?
~By William Westmoreland ~
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
~By Harry Mathews ~
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
~By Jim Evans ~
In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.
~By Norm Dicks ~
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.
~By John C. Reilly ~
We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.
~By Toni Collette ~
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
~By Peter De Vries ~
The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.
~By Sarah Silverman ~
I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.
~By Dusty Baker ~
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
~By Walter Kohn ~
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.
~By Edward Everett ~
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