Richelle Mead Quotes

Obviously, everyone's different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house.

Labor Day means grilling outside!

I just want to tailgate, drink beer, and hang out in the middle of nowhere in a pick-up truck. That's my ideal date.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.

The best parties have always been at my house in Ibiza. They start with a bit of music and a barbecue by the pool.

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for 'The Hangover' to be a fun set. They're trying to get money.

Every year, I do a New Year's day party at my home. I invite my staff and my friends and their kids. Around 40-50 people come by, and I do a barbecue and salads, steak and sushi, and also lots of cheese.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.

Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting.

A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.

I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

I personally love grilling, but it's a 15- to 20-minute commitment in entertaining.

I like a good pool party.

People get a little bolder and more wild in summer. You've got things going on kabobs, things cooking on the bone. There's something about standing over a grill or outside with the family that inspires us.

I'm a picnic-in-the-park kind of girl.

I like to sit around the pool, listen to music, barbecue, grill, stuff like that. Just the guy next door, I guess.

Music was a big part of my family with gatherings, picnics, barbecues.

My perfect day would be spent poolside with some friends.

The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.