A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Steve Allen was on Johnny Carson one time - I looked for it, but I couldn't find it - and he read… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than… — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green,… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been… — David Robert Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before… — Arthur Harry Church Copy Share Image
It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My… — Aaron Ruell Copy Share Image
And tar is washing up onto the beaches - big globs of tar. And people are saying, 'Is that going to ruin… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
[in the sleeve notes for The Beach Boys 1964 album, "All Summer Long"] They say I live a fast life. Maybe I… — Dennis Wilson Copy Share Image
“All ye young people now take my advice Before crossing the ocean you'd better think twice Cause you can't live without love,… — Christy Moore Copy Share Image
In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a… — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
All life requires a rhythm of rest. . . There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
“With each mile we put behind us, I felt the air grow lighter in my lungs. It was as if the city… — Suzanne Rindell Copy Share Image
“It was on the warmest days when I saw them most clearly, days when the sun dawdled high in the sky, tinting… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
“There was so much time that marvelous summer. Day after day, mist rose from the meadow as the sky lightened and hedges,… — J.L. Carr Copy Share Image
When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles… — Haruo Shirane Copy Share Image
As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“If someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and… — Magan Vernon Copy Share Image
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image