Summer Term Quotes

#1. Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of feelings, pride at having got it done, sick of the sight of it and glad it was over, and completely lost without it.

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.

Heinrich Boll

#3. 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.

Harry Mathews

#4. But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Mary Augusta Ward

#5. I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

Ed Rollins

#6. The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful ... in the eyes of the remote holder.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. The bike would be finished this
summer and Papi would be fine, and Janice and all the
other concerned medical professionals could take their
long-term care facility and shove it, while the rest of us
ate empanadas and laughed about that one summer Papi
almost lost his mind.

Sarah Ockler

#8. Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

Jhonen Vasquez

#9. Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one he'd come across. Not to mention the most unethical.

Elizabeth Newton

#10. I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for 'Harvey' at the end of the summer, and I was in a play every semester after that.

Kevin Rahm

#11. One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we'll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other's chest, and watch each other like stars we don't know are dead.

Zachary Schomburg

#12. So, did you peep the trap house that I sent you to? That's where Divine be," I said. His

KIA

#13. We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

Mignon McLaughlin

#14. Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Ernest Becker

#15. Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel.

Albert Goldman

#16. A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters," a term applied to men who openly advocated secession rather than finding accomodation with the Union in the summer and fall of 1860.

Clint Johnson

#17. The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist.

Bob Saget