Summer – Quotes

There was something horribly

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. Galt Niederhoffer

Fact: Girls who are

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe. Gail Parent

Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third bit of paper. “ ‘Lady K says Agent Doom assisted depraved Plan of Action. May have all been his idea.’ Moving on to the last one, he read out, Summer permits Scots to … Read more

I got into cooking

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking. Gaby Hoffmann

Village cricket spread fast

Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis! G. M. Trevelyan

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cucc. Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu! Ezra Pound

I wanted to get

I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar. Ezra Furman

The summer of 1830

The summer of 1830 I… blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill… In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek. Ezra Cornell

How ungenerously in later

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. Evelyn Waugh

If it could only

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper. Evelyn Waugh