Summer Heat Wave

Famous quotes containing the words summer, heat and/or wave:

    “That night was the turning-point in the season. We had gone to bed in summer, and we awoke in autumn; for summer passes into autumn in some imaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
    But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.”
    —John Webster (1580–1625)

    “I don’t know a great deal about life in Washington for women—I spent a summer there once working in the White House, and my main memories of the experience have to do with a very bad permanent wave I have always been convinced kept me from having a meaningful relationship with President Kennedy ...”
    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)