Warm Summer Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words warm, summer and/or conditions:

    “A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues off—or in her warm bed—or playing with a case-knife—or any thing you please—than make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.
    That we may look at them, in their gardens where
    The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
    Even the leaves fall down in lovelier patterns here.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodes ... assumptions about the nature of our reality, the “pattern” in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.”
    —Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)