Edna O'Brien Quotes

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

I hate the summer.

It's always hot in Australia.

In Malta, it's so hot, you wouldn't believe.

the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

My summer tip is to taste the freedom given by the long days - and by the holidays!

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Brass, stay down all summer.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

The summer in Arizona is too hot.

Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat.

During the summer, I used to hate when my mom would call me inside to eat - it was such a drag to leave all the fun.

I love Greece. It's really cool in the summer.

Atlanta is still going to be my summer place. My family is still going to be there.

In the summer of 1982, like most summers, I spent most every day at the Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Maryland, swimming and practicing diving.

It does get hot in England from time to time.

Outdoors, I have a pool, so I usually swim and stuff. It's usually superhot in California, so we swim.

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!